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• OBJECTIVE: Examine “The Long Chain”. MCSS WH-5.3.5

• I. Administrative Stuff-Attendance

• II. CONNECTIONS-notes on episode#7 “The Long Chain”

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• OBJECTIVE: Examine Russian Expansion & Revolutions. MCSS WH-5.3.5

• I. Journal#30pt.A-Examine the picture on p.603-Answer the caption question on p.603

• II. Journal#30pt.B-notes on Russia during the 1800s

Russian Expansion• For years Russian rulers

expanded their empires.• Ivan IV opened Siberia to

traders & explorers which eventually extended the empire to the pacific.

• Peter the Great won the cold water ports of modern day Estonia & Latvia

• Catherine the Great won warm water ports on the Black Sea & lands in modern day Poland, Lithuania, & Belarus.

http://worldroots.com/brigitte/gifs/cath2russia.jpg

The Russian Empire

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/zencmed/targets/maps/mhi/0c8600de.gif

Revolt & Repression• Serfs wanted freedom &

their own land to farm.• A few nobles supported

enlightenment ideas

-life, liberty, property

-separation of powers

• Nobles didn’t agree on the types of reforms to establish.

• As education spread, the middle class demanded reforms at a quicker pace than the nobles did.

http://www.millenniumschools.co.uk/_user/3/8/J/6/H/ja_image1.JPG?1140607339

Decembrist Revolution - 1825• Small group of army

offices tried to overthrow the Czar & establish a republic.

• Result: FAILURE!!• Leaders killed or sent to

Siberia

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~mriedlsp/History111/Images/hambach1.jpg

Czar’s Reaction to Decembrists• Czar imposed strict censorship & banned books from the

West.• Used secret police to spy on students & teachers• Enforced Russian nationalism & loyalty to the Russian

Orthodox Church as a way to united his vast multi-national empire.

• Pogroms – organized acts of violence against Jews• The gov’t blamed the Jews as the source of Russian

poverty• The violence forced many Jews to leave Russia & go to

Germany.

Russia’s Real Economic Problem• Russian political & economic system

slowed industrial growth in Russia• Western European nations got stronger and

more powerful because factories had lots of labor

• Russian factories didn’t have a lot of labor because serfs couldn’t leave the land they worked

Czar Alexander II• In 1861, he freed the

the serfs, but made them buy the land they lived on at high prices.

• Since most peasants owed so much money they lived in poverty.

http://studycircle.angeltowns.com/images/ruler-14.jpg

Effects of Industrialization• In the late 1800s industry expanded & peasants

moved to cities where new factories were being built.

• The middle class grew, so did education• Better healthcare & more food caused the

population to soar.• Life in the cities was bad.

-little pay-long hours-dangerous working conditions

Revolutionary Movements• Decembrist Revolt – 1825

*Goal – set up a republic• Mid –1860s

*Goal – establish socialism• Who were the revolutionaries?

-Most came from the small, but growing educated classes

What they did?• Tried to get peasants to support their revolution.

When this failed, they turned to terrorism.• They assassinated Czar Alexander the II.

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http://www.columbia.edu/~rt184/alex.jpg

Czar Alexander III• He succeeded his father

& returned to the repressive actions his father relaxed.

• Despite this crackdown, by the time Czar Nicholas II came to power a new form of socialism, called Marxism became popular with the revolutionaries.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Alexander_III._Czar_Of_Russia_Nadar.jpg/433px-Alexander_III._Czar_Of_Russia_Nadar.jpg

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• Final Exams: Hours 1,2,3

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• OBJECTIVE: FINAL EXAM

• I. Administrative Stuff-attendance & distribution of test

• II. FINAL EXAM