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?