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World History 2011-12
7. Russian Revolution and Rise of Totalitarianism
Essential Content: World History 10.6 & 10.7
Textbook: Chapters 14.1 & 2, 15.1-3.
Long-term social and political unrest in Russia exploded in revolution. The postwar period was one of loss, uncertainty, and economic upheaval; but also one of invention, creativity
and new ideas. In response to political, social and economic crisis a few countries turned to totalitarian dictators.
Learning Targets – Basic, essential information
7.1. The Russian Revolution began as a result of oppressive
rule, social inequalities, and ruthless treatment of peasants.
Czar Nicholas II continued the czarist firm rule, but began
a program to build Russian Industries.
7.2. Although there was industrial progress in Russia,
working conditions and exploited workers looked toward
revolutionary movements.
7.3. Between 1904 and 1917, the Czar and Russia faced a
series of crises that revealed the czar’s weakness and
paved the way for revolution.
7.4. After returning from exile, Lenin and the Bolsheviks
gained control of Russia and began to rebuild a new nation.
7.5. After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin seized control
and transformed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.
7.6. Up to WWI, society believed the Enlightenment ideals
that progress should continue and reason would prevail.
The horrors of WWI changed the way people viewed the
world through literature, art and intellectual life.
7.7. Also, the horrors of WWI lead to disillusionment in
the arts.
7.8. WWI impacted the politics and economies of nations in
Europe and in America.
7.9. The economic crisis of the Great Depression led to the
loss of democracy in some countries. In Germany, people
turned to strong ruler, Adolf Hitler, to try to solve their
economic problems.
7.10. Social unrest and disappointment in the Treaty of
Versailles led to the rise of Mussolini and Fascism in Italy.
7.11. Dictators took control of other European countries;
only in nations with strong democratic traditions (Britain,
France, and the Scandinavian countries) did democracy
survive.
7.12. Fascism/Nazism and Communism are two different
totalitarian political systems with some common
characteristics.
Additional Basic
autocracy
Trans-Siberian Railway
Proficient
secret police
Pogroms
Karl Marx
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Russo-Japanese War
WWI
Bloody Sunday
March Revolution
Soviet Union (USSR)
Communism
Alexander Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Totalitarianism
Advanced
censorship codes
exile
Mensheviks
Soviets
Duma
Provisional government
Rasputin
Albert Einstein and the theory of
relativity
Sigmund Freud and his theories about
the unconscious.
Entertainment and fashion (jazz, the
bob, flappers, and automobiles)
Airplanes and Charles Lindbergh
Coalition government
Weimar Republic
der Fuhrer
Fascism
Mein Kamph
“Peace, Land, and Bread”
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Five Year Plan
Collective farms
Kulaks
Great purge
Gertrude Stein
”the Lost Generation”
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
Fitzgerald (Expatriates)
Pablo Picasso and Cubism
Dada movement
Surrealism
Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
National Socialist German
Workers’ Party - Nazi
Anti-Semitism
Red Army v. White Army
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Command economy
Indoctrination
Socialist realism
Police State
Friedrich Nietzche and
existentialism
Il Duce
King Emmanuel III
Architect Frank Lloyd
Wright and functionalism
Global Depression
Lebensraum
Third Reich
Kristallnacht
Rome-Berlin Axis
Czechoslovakia
Study chart on page 437(old book)
DPETS: Dates, People, Events, Terms, and Statistics that must be in Cornell Notes. Basic, Proficient, and Advanced DPETS make EXEMPLARY Cornell Notes! Exemplary: excellent and used as an example to follow.
Skill set:
Constructed response (S-26)/Short answer.
Enrichment:
movie
Test: ________________
literature
art