HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 30 Outline of Last Lecture I War s End Turbulence and Upheaval II The Paris Peace Conference III A New Map Successor States IV Treaties V League of Nations VI A Fragile Continent Outline of Current Lecture I Introduction A War brings all unresolved problems to the surface in Russia B Dynasty 1 Romanovs in power since 1619 2 Nicholas and Alexander are the last rulers i Big family man ii Deeply conservative against reform II On the eve of the war A Russian society 1 Parliament Duma i Nicholas tried to take away parliament because he had only granted it as a concession 2 Overwhelmingly agrarian society i Large sense of grievance ii Substantial industry in just a handful of cities conditions were horrible overcrowding public health work conditions low wages unions illegal III Total war and political crisis A Some successors 1 Poor leadership 2 Brave fighting 3 In 16 months almost 2 million Russian men dead from fighting B Home front 1 Quick rise of opposition to the war 2 Everybody makes sacrifices i Food shortages inflation These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV 3 Undermines legitimacy of government i Czar leaves the capital to help on the front even though no military experience ii Nicholas leaves Alexander in charge of country while he goes to fight this because Alexander was a German princess C Rasputin 1 Humble backgrounds 2 Holy man called upon to heal son of Alexander i Alexander s son had hemophilia ii The boy recovered and Alexander became devoted to Rasputin 3 Women loved him 4 Roaring drunk 5 Czarinas closest advisor tells her who to appoint to government positions 6 Eventually gets assassinated 1916 1917 A February Revolution 1 Revolution over food 2 Army called in but they wouldn t shoot the citizens and defected to the commoners side 3 Romanovs overthrown 4 Parliament declared itself provisional government B October Revolution 1 Parliaments decision to stay in the war leads to the overthrow of Parliament and Kerensky
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