Aim: What was the Russian Revolution?

Do Now:
1. What is a Czar?



2. Who was Karl Marx? And what did he want?



3. How does WWI lead to the Russian Revolution?



Notes:

Russian Revolution

I. Czar Nicholas II

• a poor leader at best, compared to western kings

• cruel - sometimes brutal with opponents

• Sometimes kind - hired students as spies to make $

II. Karl Marx

• invented Communism

• "workers of the world unite", take over gov't

• dies before Russian Revolution

III. Communism

• same

• all people equal

• gov't owns everything, people own gov't