https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5 Russia en-us 2022-10-04 21:14:32 UTC 2022-10-07 22:56:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3f0.png kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328276429 Karl Marx is a german philosopher, who gained name after writing the Communist Manifesto. It highlights the belief that the struggle between the working class and capitalists will lead to a class conflict and revolutionary war. ]]> 2022-10-05 20:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328276429 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328279005 Nicholas attempts to change public opinion by modernizing Russia, as it is one of the least developed countries in all of Europe. He does this by building the Trans-Siberian railway from western to eastern Russia, that stretches 4500 miles in total. ]]> 2022-10-05 20:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328279005 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328282826 People who believed in the Marxist teachers thought the working class, or the Proletariat, would rise up and overthrow the Tsar and capitalism. The leader of the Proletariat being Vladimir Lenin, or as his followers are known as, the Bolsheviks. However when he tries recruiting for the revolutionaries, he is caught and sentenced to 3 years in Siberia. ]]> 2022-10-05 20:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328282826 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328313127 After the defeat of Russians from the Russo-Japanese war, thousands of workers march to Tsar Nicholas' palace from St. Petersburg. The guards did not like this and opened fire on the protestors killing hundreds of them. During this time Lenin has returned, continuing his revolutionary journey, and Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto and offers a few civil liberties. Lenin is then exiled a second time in 1907.]]> 2022-10-05 21:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2328313127 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331535702 When Russia enters WWI, Tsar Nicholas II gets an even worse, as Russia is suffering great casualties. To make his public image better, Nicholas decides to go to the frontlines to command his army. When Nicholas is gone his wife, Czarina Alexandra, comes under the influence of Rasputin, a Serbian Mystic. ]]> 2022-10-07 21:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331535702 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331538181 As Rasputin's ideals are so unpopular, there is an assassination planned against him by relatives of the Tsar in 1916. The assassins try many techniques, but fail many times. The first one they try is inviting him to dinner and poisoning his drink, however the poison did not work. They then decide to shoot him, they learn in a bit that the first bullet did not not kill him either, so they shoot him again in the forehead. Afterwards they decide to throw his body in an icy river. ]]> 2022-10-07 21:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331538181 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331579232 Workers in Petrograd go on a city wided strike, soon following the Tsars own soilders, the Cossacks, in March of 1917. Nicholas II decides to abdiacte bringing an end to centuries worth of Tsars'. ]]> 2022-10-07 22:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331579232 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331580565 One year after the Tsar abdicates, his wife, children, a few of their servants, and himself included are sentenced to death by a firing squad on July 16, 1918. It was beleived that anti-revelutionary forces would make an attempt to recuse Nicholas. ]]> 2022-10-07 22:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331580565 kp926 https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331581200 Germany decides in April 1917 to send Lenin back to Russia, as Germany belived Lenins return would spark a revelution in Russia and create instability that would make their efforts and participation in the war diminish. Germany used the fact that Lenin and his followerws disagread with the idea of Russia fighting in the war. ]]> 2022-10-07 22:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kp926/4srib37t38zl0mo5/wish/2331581200