Miss Marks
Global 10
Name: ___________________________________________
Date: _________________________
AIM: What events led to the end of Czarist rule in Russia?
Do Now: Analyze the quote below and answer the questions that follow.
“The Russian Revolution was like a firecracker with a
very long fuse. The explosion came in 1917, yet the fuse
had been burning for nearly a century.”
1. Interpret the quote above. What does the speaker mean?
2. What, in Russia, had caused the “fuse” to burn for nearly a century?
3. What do you think is the “explosion” that the speaker is discussing?
“Bloody Sunday”
 Russia’s defeat in the _____________________________________________________________ triggered
a crisis in Russia.
 On Sunday, January 22, 1905, __________________________________________________ carrying a
petition for reform were ___________________________________________________________________
_________________________________ = “___________________________________________________________”
Correspondent of the Paris Le Matin reporting on the events of January 22, 1905
“The soldiers of the Preobrazhensky regiment, without any summons to disperse, shoot down the
unfortunate people as if they were playing at bloodshed. Several hundred fall; more than a hundred
and fifty are killed. They are almost all children, women, and young people. It is terrible. Blood flows
on all sides. At 5 o’clock the crowd is driven back, cut down and repelled on all sides. The people,
terror-stricken, fly in every direction. Scared women and children slip, fall, rise to their feet, only to
fall again further on. At this moment a sharp word of command is heard and the victims fall en masse.
There had been no disturbances to speak of. The whole crowd is unarmed and has not uttered a single
threat.
As I proceeded, there were everywhere troops and Cossacks. Successive discharges of musketry
shoot down on all sides of the terrorized mob. The soldiers aim at the people’s heads and the victims
are frightfully disfigured. A woman falls almost at my side. A little farther on I slip on a piece of
human brain. Before me is a child of eight years old whose face is no longer human. Its mother is
kneeling in teats over its corpse. The wounded, as they drag themselves along, leave streams of blood
on the snow.”
According to the correspondent, who are the victims on “Bloody Sunday?” How do they
describe them?
How does the correspondent reveal the brutality of “Bloody Sunday?”
 “Bloody Sunday” was a ___________________________________________ for the Russian people.
o *______________________________________________________________________________________*
o Strikes and revolts exploded across the country
 Due to the chaos brought on by “Bloody Sunday,” Czar Nicholas II made some
changes:
o He agreed to __________________________________ and promised to ___________________
_____________________________________________, such as freedom of speech
o He agreed to set up an elected national legislature, known as the ______________

However, the Duma had _______________________________________________ and
did little to relieve peasant and worker discontent.
World War I
 World War I also heavily influenced the emergence of revolution in Russia.
 Russia entered into WWI on the side of the Allied Powers in 1914, yet, with little
industry, they were _________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________.
How do you think that WWI impacted Russia? WHY?
o Russian soldiers lacked _______________________________________________________ and
___________________________________.
o Russia suffered a series of battlefield defeats = ___________________________________
______________________________________
o __________________________ & ______________________ was scarce.
 Many soldiers _________________________________________________________ in Russia’s military
leadership and ______________________________________________.
Directions: Read the statements below and decide if they are a social, political, or
economic cause of revolution in Russia. Then, record them in the correct box.
 Wide gap between the classes
 Autocratic rule
 Food & Fuel Shortages
 Lack of weapons & supplies for soldiers in WWI
 Weak leadership under the czar
 Bloody Sunday
 Use of secret police
 Peasants very poor
 Czar denies basic human rights
 Peasant’s desire for land
 Small group controls most of the wealth
SOCIAL CAUSES
POLITICAL CAUSES
ECONOMIC CAUSES