the modernization russia
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The Modernization Russia. Where did we last leave Russia?. 1825 Decembrist Revolt Economy Crimean War shows a need for change. A New Image for Russia. Reforms of Alexander II (r. 1855-1881) Serfs are freed in 1861 Zemstovo (1864) Industrialization. Undoing Reform – Alexander III . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Modernization Russia
Where did we last leave Russia? 1825 Decembrist
Revolt
Economy
Crimean War shows a need for change
A New Image for Russia
Reforms of Alexander II (r. 1855-1881)
Serfs are freed in 1861
Zemstovo (1864)
Industrialization
Undoing Reform – Alexander III Alexander II assassinated in 1881. Alexander III
takes over (r. 1881-1894) Reactionary policies
Russification Policies Ideas Methods Reasoning behind
Political modernization is halted Continued economic modernization
Nicholas II: The Last Romanov Tsar[r. 1894-1917]
Causes of the Revolution of 1905
1. The Tsar & His Family
Nicholas II & His Cousin, George V
Hemophilia & the Tsarevich
Grigori Rasputin
2. Early 20c:
Russian Social
Hierarchy
3. First Stages of Industrialization
An Early Russian Factory
4. Weak Economy
1905 Russian Rubles
5. Extensive Foreign Investments & Influence
Building the Trans-Siberian RR[Economic benefits only in a few
regions.]
Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905]
The “Yellow Peril”
Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905]
Treaty of Portsmouth [NH] - 1905
President Theodore Roosevelt
Acts as the Peacemake
r
[He gets the Nobel
Peace Prize for his
efforts.]
Father Georgi Gapon:
Leader of the People OR
Police Informer?
Revolution of 1905
Bloody SundayJanuary 22, 1905
The Czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
The Revolution Spreads
Results
1. The Tsar’s October Manifesto
October 30, 1905
1906 The first two tries were too
radical. The third duma was elected
by the richest people in Russia in 1907.
The Opening of the Duma
The Russian Constitution of 1906
Known as the Fundamental Laws [April 23, 1906].
The autocracy of the Russian Tsar was declared.
The Tsar was supreme over the law, the church, and the Duma.
It confirmed the basic human rights granted by the October Manifesto, BUT made them subordinate to the supremacy of the law.
3. Jewish Refugees Come to America in 1906
4. The Path to
October, 1917
Why did the 1905 Revolution Fail?