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2. The 1905 Russian Revolution
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

3. Nicholas II: The Last Romanov Tsar [r. 1894-1917]

4. The Tsar & His Family

5. Hemophilia & the Tsarevich

6. Nicholas II & His Uncle, George V

7. Causes

8. 1. Early 20c: Russian Social Hierarchy

9. 2. First Stages of Industrialization
An Early Russian Factory

10. 3. Weak Economy
1905 Russian Rubles

11. 4. Extensive Foreign Investments & Influence
Building the Trans-Siberian RR [Economic benefits only in a few regions.]

12. 5. Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905]
The “Yellow Peril”
Map of Battles

13. Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905]

14. Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905] Battles

15. Russian & Japanese Soldiers

16. Russia Is Humiliated

17. Treaty of Portsmouth [NH] - 1905
US President Theodore Roosevelt Acts as the Peacemaker
[He gets the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.]

18. 6. Unrest Among the Peasants & Urban Working Poor
Father Georgi Gapon:
Leader of the People OR Police Informer?

19. The Czar’s Winter Palace
Bloody Sunday January 22, 1905
The Czar’s Winter Palace
in St. Petersburg

20. The Revolution Spreads

21. Russian Cossacks Slaughter The People in Odessa
Anti-Jewish Attacks

22. 7. The Battleship Potemkin Mutiny [June, 1905]

23. Results

24. 1. The Tsar’s October Manifesto

25. 2. The Opening of the Duma: Possible Reforms?
1906
The first two tries were too radical.
The third duma was elected by the richest people in Russia in 1907.

26. 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.

27. 3. Jewish Refugees Come to America in 1906

28. 4. The Path to October, 1917

29. Why did the 1905 Revolution Fail?