Wednesday, February 6 th

AGENDA
Wrap up Social Democracy (EQ 4)
Present Russian roles
7 minutes of quiet reading and notes
Be prepared if called on
Cause and Effects of Russian Revolution
Presentation (EQ 9)
Student note sheet
Objective: Identify and describe the key events of the
Russian Revolution
 Essential Question 4

Explain how social

democracy includes
ideas of both capitalism
and socialism.
 Definition of Social Democracy
A democratic welfare state that
incorporates both capitalist and
socialist practices
 Differences with Marxism
Marxists believed only violent revolution and the
eventual overturning of capitalism would bring
change

Social Democracy sees no contradiction between

democratic capitalism and socialism. Social
democracy supports:
trade unions and labor movements
collective bargaining rights for workers
 Social Democracy Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvJ8YD
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 Classify the below as
Socialist OR Capitalist
Your public high school _________
A childs lemonade stand _________
A soup kitchen _________
A government that provides health care for all _______
The local fire department ________
The Stock Market ________
You sell a candy for 25 cents more than what you
bought it for ________
Yosemite National Park _________
Ben & Jerrys Ice Cream Company _________
Russian Population (and Wealth)
Distribution

Tsar & Nobles

Peasants
Clergy/Craftsmen
Causes & Consequences of
Russian Revolution
Autocracy
Government that
has total power
Did not Allow You to:

Question the Tzar

Have Free
Religion
Speak their native
Languages
 Industrialization
# of Factories Doubled (paid for by increased taxes)

Poor, Working Conditions, Low Wages &

Child Labor
Early 1900s
 Bloody Sunday
200,000 workers & their families gathered outside
the Czars Winter Palace to deliver a petition asking
for better working conditions and more freedoms.
 Tzar not present, his army fired upon Crowd
and 130 UNARMED people killed

Result: Strikes & Violence breaks out around country

1905
Reforms

Tzar allows an elected national legislature the Dumas

Written constitution
Granting basic civil liberties to people

Unrests continued and the Tzar tried to suppress reforms

Several Dumas dissolved until it was more to the Tzars liking

Police helped him keep control by arresting radicals. Lenin flees.

Most successful reform: Giving peasants their own land in order

to weaken communes and insure their loyalty.

Came too late

1905- 17
 World War I encourages
Revolution in 1917
Weak general & poorly equipped troops running low on Food &
Fuel 1914-
Home front: Shortage of Bread & Fuel; low wages
1917
15 mil. called to arms 6 mil. killed, wounded or captured
February Revolution topples the
monarchy and creates a democracy
Strikes & Protest Petrograd
Soldiers fired at officers & joined
Revolution

Tzar stepped down

1917
Bolshevik Party
Leader: Lenin

October Revolution
Lenin returns to Russia
Calls to overthrow the
provisional government
Beliefs: Industrial workers would
overthrow Tzar and workers would
rule
 Peace, Land & Bread
Withdrawal from Workers
All farmland to be
World War I given control
distributed among
of factories
Peasants

1917
 Revive Economy &
Restructure Government
1921
N.E.P. New Economic Policy
Peasants could sell surplus food
People could buy & sell for profit
Central Government
Supervising self-governing republic
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
 Communist Party
Classless Society that
would exist after workers
seized power
1928 RECOVERY
Factories returned to prewar production
levels, USSR was stabilizing, until Lenin
dies..
Stalin seizes Power