Russian+Revolution+of+1917

**Background**: World War I and social unrest combined to push Russia to the edge of revolution. The events that followed led to Russia's exit from WWI and became a turning __point__ in world history. Two revolutions actually took place within Russia during this time period. The first is known as the Russian Revolution and the second is known as the Bolshevik Revolution.

‍**Objectives**:
Explain the __long term__ and short term causes of Russian Revolution Evaluate the impact of WWI on the Russian Revolution Evaluate the impact of the revolution on the __future__ of Russia

Essential Questions: - Whenever there is much disagreement over a political decision or decisions that were made for a country's citizens. The government may have believed that it would be to good but sometimes they are blinded by other factors that don't allow them to see that they may be hurting a lot of the country. - No, not always due to the fact that many people become greedy over what is available to them. - Yes, the military is something that one can not easily improvise over, therefore if initial plans are followed there would not have to be a lot of confusion.
 * **What causes a Revolution?**
 * **Can people ever equally __share__ resources?**
 * **Do military orders have to be followed? Why or why not?**





**Visual Discovery Activity**:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">__Complete__ an I See/It Means based on the cartoon below:



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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Role of Rasputin**: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Grigory Rasputin has been seen as a major contributor to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty. It was believed by many Russians that he had an enormous influence of the Tsarina Alexandra while Tsar Nicholas led the troops duirng WWI. The Tsarina believed that Rasputin could save her son from the problems of hemophilia.

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** Question: ** Why is Rasputin grasping the other figures?

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** What do you see?: ** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> Rasputin is <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> over-sized <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Rasputin looks disheveled, and looks awfully evil. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Two people in his lap (man on one lap and a woman on the other). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The man is wearing some sort of professional suit <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The woman is in a dress with a crown. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The characters are puppet-like.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** Author's POV: ** Rasputin was a demonic man who took power into his own hands.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Rasputin was an evil man whose ideas were corrupt which made him be banned from the Orthodox church. He even led some people to believe that he had healing powers and easily maneuvered his way through Tsarina especially when Tsar put her in charge of Russia once he went off to war. The Russian people disapproved of his actions as well as hers eventually losing much of the support they once had. This cartoon ultimately shows how much control he really had over the leaders and influenced them negatively.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Now that you have completed the Dialectical journal on the movie clip on Rasputin, **in Paragraph form, explain the message of this cartoon. Use evidence from your dialectical journal to support your claim.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**3. Russian Revolution Activity**: (Based on graphic organizer) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** What do you see as the major changes in Russia after the Revolution? Evaluate their impact on the Russian People ** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">One of the major changes in Russia was the creation of a temporary government established by Linan because it did benefit the Soviet in the long run by gaining them more power. The government destroyed the ownership of private property and promoted the fact that everyone was to be created equally and fairly. Working hours were also much more manageable and reasonable. Moral were highly looked up to, and increased from earlier.