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1 Do NOW!  Get a textbook and go through the visuals in chapter 27 with your group. Go slowly and talk about how each one relates to the information you read in the chapter.

2 Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

3 Russia Before Reform  Tsars maintaining tight grip on conservative ideals of Russia (against ideas of French Revolution)  Avoided nationalist revolutions in the west  Expansionist tendencies (Eastern Europe and Ottoman Empire)  Peasants fell behind west in trade and technology. Serfdom still prevalent  Behind militarily- Crimean War (1854-1856)

4 Reform in Russia  1861 Emancipation of Serfs (about the same time that the U.S. and Brazil abolish it)  1860s-1870s Alexander II- new law codes, zemstvoes, officer corps, trans- Siberian railroad  Modern factories

5 Cons of Reform  Absence of a large middle class  Industrialization not up to western standards (population and resources)  High tariffs to protect industries  Emancipation maintained the tsarist grip on power and led to unsatisfied peasants

6 Causes of Revolution  Minority nationalities began making demands on the tsar  Famines  Intelligentsia  Radicals engaged in terrorist acts  Spread of Marxist doctrines and the rise of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) and the Bolsheviks

7 Revolution in 1905 (This is NOT the Communist Revolution!)  1904 defeat in Russo-Japanese War  1905 workers and peasants revolt  Result: creation of the Duma and Stolypin reforms where peasants gained greater freedom from redemption payments and village controls

8 Japan: Final Decades of the Shogun  First half of 19 th century saw a slow breakdown of political system  Economic problems- taxes based on agriculture  Rise of secularism  Dutch Studies group and western influence  By 1850s economic growth slowed and rural protest increased

9 Japan Ends Isolation  1853 Matthew Perry in Edo Bay- U.S. gained 2 ports in 1856  1860s political crisis as Samurai increased their attacks on foreigners  1866 civil war  1868 Mutsuhito comes to power and begins the Meiji Era

10 Meiji Era of Reform  1871 abolished feudalism and replaced daimyos  Political power centralized  1884 new conservative nobility  Examination system  1889 new constitution granted limited powers to Diet  Parliament advised government but did not control it

11 Japan Industrializes  New army  Banks, railroads, private enterprise  State direction of development of manufacturing (zaibatsu)  By early 20 th century Japan industrial power but still not equal to west

12 Social/Cultural Effects of Reform in Japan  Population growth  Universal education but insistence on Japanese values  Western fashion  Religious values preserved  Women remained inferior

13 Japan’s Imperialism  1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War gave Japan influence over Korea, Taiwan, and the Pescadores Islands  1904 Russo-Japanese War  1910 Korea annexed


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