1. Reenacting the Russian Revolutions

2. Warm up
Based on what we learned about the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, what conditions would lead people to rebel and/or change their government?

3. Reeancting the russian rev’s
Step 1: Read your group’s section of the textbook to get an understanding of the events, people, and terms of your “act.”
Step 2: Write a script that includes all of the people/terms listed for your act.
Step 3: Perform your act for the class, and take notes on the important events of other group’s acts.

4. act 1: Czarist Russia Czar: Russian dictator
Czar Alexander III: Autocratic ruler of Russia from ; used harsh measures to keep power
Czar Nicholas II: autocratic ruler of Russia, began process of Industrialization
Pograms: organized violence against Jews

5. act 2: The seeds of revolution
Karl Marx: wrote “The Communist Manifesto,” arguing that the proletariat (workers) should rise up and rebel in order to create an equal socialist society
Vladimir Lenin: Revolutionary leader; Marxist
Bolsheviks: Lenin’s party; radical revolutionaries who wanted change based on Marxist ideas
Bloody Sunday: 1905; 200,000 workers petitioned the czar for better working conditions; army fired on them killing 1,000

6. Act 3: “Peace, Land, and Bread”
Rasputin: Advisor to Czar Nicholas II
March Revolution: 1917, series of strikes and riots that caused the czar to step down
Soviets: local councils of workers, peasants, and soldiers
Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin and his party took control of the government in November 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: treaty between Russia & Germany; got Russia out of war, but they had to give a lot of territory to the Germans

7. act 4: civil war White Army: Opponents of Bolsheviks
Red Army: Bolshevik army led by Leon Trotsky
USSR: United Soviet Socialist Republics
Communist Party: Bolsheviks renamed themselves Communists based on Marx’ ideas that there should be a “dictatorship of Proletariats”

8. act 5: rise of totalitarianism
Totalitarianism: a government that takes total, centralized, state control of all aspects of public and private life
Joseph Stalin: became leader of Communist party and of USSR by 1928
Great Purge: campaign of terror conducted by Stalin in 1937 to eliminate rivals/threats to his power
Indoctrination: instruction in government’s beliefs

9. homework
Read Chapter 30, Section 3 (p ); think about how the rise of Communism in China compares to its rise in the Soviet Union