5. Bloody Sunday Area of Study 1: Russia

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“There is no God any longer. There is no Tsar.”

Father Geogrei Gapon

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In this lesson you will

• Examine the events that surrounded Bloody Sunday.

• Explore the petition created for Tsar Nicholas II

• Examine the outcome of Bloody Sunday.

• Continue to practice visual and written source analysis.

• Be introduced to an Historian of the Russian Revolution.

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1. Revision

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What reasons would the

ordinary Russian have for being angry in 1905?

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Spotlight on an Historian

• Read your profile on John Reed.

• “It was against this background of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration that the pageant of the Rising of the Russian Masses unrolled...” Reed.

2. Setting the Scene

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Let’s Read

• Page 44 of “Spirit of Change: Russia in Revolution.”

• Enter Gregorian & Julian Calendars and Father Georgei Gapon (see profile on page 35 of Reaction and Revolution) into your glossary.

• Begin your notes on Bloody Sunday.

• N.B. To convert from Julian to Gregorian dates; just add 13 days

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Father Georgei Gapon

3. The Grievances of the People/Revision

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Why Protest?

• Let’s read pages 33-4 of “Reaction and Revolution.” Up to “The Course of Events.”

• Why do you think the “industrial workers, peasantry and reforming middle classes” would be the ones petitioning the Tsar?

• Update your notes on the causes of Bloody Sunday.

• Read source 5.2 on page 44 in “Spirit of Change” and complete the table on the following pages.

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Petition to the Tsar What do they want (paraphrase)Why is this an issue (use evidence/

key concepts)

1. Freedom...of person, liberty of speech...separation of

Church and State.

2. General [and]...compulsory education by the state

3. The responsibility of Ministers to the nation and

guarantees for the legality of administrative methods.

4. Equality of all persons, without exception, before the

law.

5. The immediate recall of all who have suffered for their

convictions

1. The Ignorance of the Russian People11

Petition to the Tsar What do they want (paraphrase)Why is this an issue (use evidence/

key concepts)

1. The repeal of indirect taxation, and the

substitution of a direct progressive income tax.

2. [End]...the land redemption tax. Cheap

credit and gradual transfer of the land to the people

2. The Poverty of the Nation12

3. Measures Against the Crushing of Labour by Capital

Petition to the Tsar What do they want (paraphrase)Why is this an issue (use evidence/

key concepts)

1. Protection of labour by the law.

2. Freedom of working men’s associations for co-operative and

professional purposes

3. An 8 hour working day and the limitation of overtime

4. The freedom of struggle between labour and capital.

5. The participation of representatives of the working classes in the [drafting] of a bill

dealing with the State insurance of workmen

6. A normal working wage.

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4. Why it is called “Bloody Sunday”

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Let’s Read

• Pages 40-41 of “Reinventing Russia.”

• Key dates:

• December 1904: Dismissal of 4 workers at the Putilov Steel Works in St. Petersburg. Sparks widespread discontent and industrial action.

• 7-8th January 1905: Major strikes in St. Petersburg.

• 9th January 1905: Bloody Sunday.

• 18th January: Tsar meets with Industrial workers and states he has “forgiven them.”

• Update your notes on “Bloody Sunday.”

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5. Source Analysis: 2 Marks

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Source Analysis

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1. Identify two groups depicted in this representation.

2.Identify two ways the artist has suggested that Bloody Sunday was disastrous.

Look at the Petition to be presented to Nicholas II and answer the questions below:

3. Identify two quotes which suggest the workers are dissatisfied.

Homework

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Homework

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Obvious Compulsory Strongly Recommended

Update notes & complete

surveys

Ensure you have watched the clip from lesson 4 - this should

already be done

* Watch the clip on Bloody Sunday from Battleship

Potemkin. Named the best movie in 1958.

* Read the sources on Bloody Sunday on pages 45-6 of “Spirit of Change.” Add them to your notes.

Have you?

• Examined the events that surrounded Bloody Sunday?

• Explored the petition created for Tsar Nicholas II?

• Examined the outcome of Bloody Sunday?

• Continued to practice visual and written source analysis?

• Been introduced to the Russian Revolution?

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