module 3

module 3

part 1 questions (answer each question in about 200 words)

watch the cherry orchad -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4T5TEbRPM

1- In what ways does Alexander III Proclamation from 1881 mark a turning point in the history of the autocracy? How did Pirogov react to the death of Alexander II and what observations did he make about Russian society? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?

2- What are the main arguments of the Marxist interpretation of history? Why do you think it took so long for Marxism to develop in Russia and how did it differ from the earlier Populists and Anarchists?

3- How did Alexander III’s government lay the groundwork for capitalist development in Russia? How did Alexander III and Nicholas II achieve this development and how is it reflected in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard?

4- Scenario: The year is 1899 in a Moscow steel factory after an illegal strike has just ended. A Capitalist, who has benefited greatly government policies towards business, confronts a Marxist Activist who is a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and has just launched a strike against the factory that has lasted for two weeks. The Marxist Activist tries to explain his worldview to the Capitalist, while the Capitalist interrogates him to find out the extent to which the Marxist Activist has infiltrated his workforce. – for this question this will play out as a script and you must do a continuation of a script. this will be in a word document titled (script question- #1)

part 2 questions (answer each question in about 200 words)

watch the 1905 revolution powerpoint –

read – https://web.archive.org/web/20231120162144/http://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Workers’_Petition,_January_9th,_1905_(Bloody_Sunday)

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20231004094328/https://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Manifesto_of_October_17th,_1905

1- What was the October Manifesto and how did it bring about the end of the 1905 Revolution? How did Lenin’s Bolsheviks react to this?

2- Who was Father Gapon and what was Bloody Sunday? What worker’s demands are laid out in the Worker’s Petition and did any of them surprise you? How did the tragedy of Bloody Sunday lead to the 1905 Revolution and how was it commemorated in art?

3- What different political parties existed before the 1905 Revolution and how were their strategies similar to, yet distinct from, the earlier Populists? Were you at all surprised about the clip we watched from The Rider Named Death? What do you think this modern film is trying to say about the Socialist Revolutionaries and their tactics?

4- Scenario: It is January 9, 1905, Bloody Sunday, just after the massacre. A Winter Palace Guard who is among those who fired into the crowd in panic and fear, is helping a wounded Petitioner to find aid and uses the moment to try and defend his actions, trying to convince the Petitioner that the group should not have marched on the Winter Palace. The Petitioner, a loyal follower of Father Gapon who really thought that Nicholas II would listen to their plight, tries to explain their aims and is grappling with the shock of why the guards opened fire on him and his comrades. – for this question this will play out as a script and you must do a continuation of a script. this will be in a word document titled (script question- #2)

part 3 questions (answer each question in about 200 words)

watch Nicholas II and the Duma powerpoint-

read- https://web.archive.org/web/20231004091622/https://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Manifesto_of_June_3rd,_1907_(Dissolution_of_the_Second_Duma)

and RostislavovCh5032920251 and AiniVillageSchool032920251 n- these are pdf attachments

1- What was Nicholas II’s attitude towards the newly created state Duma and how is this reflected in his Manifesto of 1907? What were some of the paradoxes of the Romanov Tercentenary and its commemoration of the Romanov Dynasty?

2- What was the Jadidist Movement within the Russian Empire? Despite the profound differences between the cultures of Rostislavov and Ayni, what do their exposs of the childhood education systems have in common? Were there any moments that particularly shocked you? What implications do you think this violence might have had for the later history of 20th century Russia?

3- What do you make of the dancing style, music, and costume design of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring? How does it fit into larger Russian cultural trends of primitivism?

4-Scenario: The year is 1907 and we are on a village commune which Petr Stolypin’s laws are trying to dismantle. A Village Elder, whose family has lived within the peasant commune for his entire life and has built his life around this system, criticizes Stolypin’s new reforms, which are trying to break up the communal property in favor of private property, to a Peasant Entrepreneur who is a proponent of Stolypin’s reforms. The Peasant Entrepreneur tries to explain to the Village Elder how the agrarian sector can benefit from the introduction of private ownership. – for this question this will play out as a script and you must do a continuation of a script. this will be in a word document titled (script question- #3)

once your done with this part 4 is an essay – rubric is attached as rubric p1

-use all info and

-Alexander III and counter powerpoint

“mumu” -https://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/1972/

-Anton Checkhovs intro and pages 315-377

-A history of russia volume 2 chapter 3