Modern World History Unit 4 Part 2 Note Packet Russian Revolution ...

Modern World History Unit 4 Part 2 Note Packet Russian Revolution
I. The Revolutionary Movement Grows
A. The ____________________ rule of most 19 th -century czars caused ________________________.
In 1881, ______________________ were angry over the slow pace of political change. They assassinated
_________________________.
a. Alexander III (1881) was ____________________________________. He implemented harsh
measures to wipe out revolutionaries:
_________________________________________________________. Nicholas II
(1894) resists change as well.
b. Pogroms:
______________________________________________________________________
c. Growth of industry creates problems:
_________________________________________________
B. Formation of the Bolsheviks: _______________________________________________________
a. Rise of Lenin:
______________________________________________________________________
II. Crisis at Home and Abroad
A. Russo-Japanese war:
a. Russia and Japan competed for control of ______________________. The two nations singed a
series of agreements over the territories, but Russia broke them. In retaliation,
_________________________________________. Japanese _______________ them,
sparking unrest in Russia and revolts.
B. Bloody Sunday: The Revolution of 1905
a. January 22, 1905, about 200,000 workers and their families approached the czar’s Winter Palace in
St. Petersburg carrying a petition asking for
_____________________________________________________________________.
b. Soldiers were ordered to fire on the crown. Between _________________________________.
This provoked a wave of _________________________.
i. Nicolas II approves the creation of the ___________________--Russia’s 1st parliament.
Leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a ________________________;
hesitant to share power, the czar dissolved the Duma after ___________________.
C. World War I: The Final Blow
a. In 1914, Nicolas II decided to drag Russia into WWI. Russia’s involvement revealed the
_____________________________________________________________________.
b. _________________ runs the government while Nicolas II is away at the war front.
______________________ spreads. Meanwhile, the war was destroying the _____________
of Russian troops.
III. The March Revolution
A. In March 1917, women textile workers led a citywide strike. Soon afterward, riots flared up over
_____________________________________________. Nearly 200,000 workers swarmed the
streets. At first the soldiers obeyed orders to shoot the rioters but later
__________________________________________________________________________.
B. Local protest exploded into a general uprising—the March Revolution which eventually forced Czar Nicholas
II to _________________ his throne. A year later revolutionaries executed Nicholas and his family.
C. __________________ (local councils consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers) gain control of
government.
D. _____________ returns from exile with German help.

IV. The Bolshevik Revolution
A. Lenin and the Bolsheviks recognized their opportunity to seize power. They gained control of soviets in major
Russian cities. People were rallying to Lenin’s slogan: _____________________________________.
B. In November 1917, Bolshevik Red Guards made up of armed factory workers stormed the
________________________________________. They took over government offices and arrested
leaders of the temporary government.
C. Quickly after, Lenin ordered all ______________________. Workers gained control of ____________.
Bolshevik gov also signed a truce with Germany and eventually signed the ________________________.
D. Bolsheviks next had to eliminate enemies at home. Their opponents were the _______________. Civil war
waged in Russia from ______________. Several Western nations, including the _______________ sent
military aid and forces to Russia to help the White Army. The ____________ triumphed in the end and
finally crushed all opposition.
V. Lenin restores order
A. War and revolution had destroyed the Russian ______________.
a. Lenin launched the _____________________________ in March 1921. This program called for:
______________________________________________________________________
B. Political Reforms: in 1922, the country was named the USSR, __________________________, in honor
of the councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolshevik party was renamed as the
_________________________. Lenin had established a ________________________________
not a dictatorship of the ____________________ as Marx had promoted.
C. Lenin dies in 1924. Country recovers by 1928.
VI. Resources
1. The passage below shows attitudes and social unrest and discrimination experienced in
Russia towards the Jews, which resulted in pogroms (massacres of the Jewish people).
Do you know, brethren, workmen and peasants, who is the chief author of all our
misfortunes? Do you know that the Jews of the whole world…have entered into an
alliance and decided to destroy Russia completely? Whenever those betrayers of Christ
come near you, tear them to pieces, kill them.
A pamphlet printed out at a police station in St. Petersburg 1905-1906
2. The Russian proletariat learned its first steps in the political circumstances created by a
despotic state. Strikes forbidden by law, underground circles, illegal proclamations, street
demonstrations, encounters with the police and with troops – such was the school created
by the combination of a swiftly developing capitalism with an absolutism slowly
surrendering its positions. The concentration of the workers in colossal enterprises, the
intense character of governmental persecution, and finally the impulsiveness of a young
and fresh proletariat, brought it about that the political strike, so rare in western Europe,
became in Russia the fundamental method of struggle. The figures of strikes from the
beginning of the present century are a most impressive index of the political history of
Russia.
Vladimir Ulianov (Lenin), 1916ıLibrary of Congress

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Document 3:
1. What does the artist of this cartoon hope Tsar Nicholas II will achieve? __________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. This cartoon was published in 1905. Why is this date significant to what was going on in Russia? _________
___________________________________________________________________________
Document 4:
1. What goals does Vladimir Lenin hope to accomplish according to this document? ___________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. What perspective of Communism is portrayed in this document? ______________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
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