Nicky II: Ma story

Bitch im fabulous No ur

notow

Stop shooting

me

24 slides about a useless

waste of space

LEGIT QUOTE FROM DA MAN HIMSELF:

• 1894-"I am not prepared to be the Tsar.  I never wanted to become one.  I know nothing of the business of ruling.“ nice really confident in u m8

• Trotsky said he was ‘not fit to run a village post office’ OHH BURRN• This Hans Rogger

historian dude said ‘Nicholas had no knowledge of the world or of men".’ hoo boyy

T-Nizzle 1894-1917: Cray cray times

• He didn’t really want to do this, leading countries was not his thang

• BUT Autocracy was definitely his thang

• They had just had a massive famine in 1891 where even the word ‘famine’ was banned

• Couldn’t even speak RUSSIAN properly but he spoke french?! MOTHERFUCKER you are RUNNING this country and you CANT SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE LOOK AT YOUR LIFE LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES

• Too many dirty peasants• He was a pansy

whee this is so much funluv family fotos

im having the time of my life

Nick a stupid hoeaka reasons why it all fell apart no.2

• Russia’s economy was a backwards pile of sh*t (more on that later)

• Bought up by Pobodonestev, MASSIVE CONSERVATIVE

• 99 problems and his bitch was one HAHAHA yeah she was also conservative so she whispered bad things about democracy in his ear so he wouldn’t do anything

• The times were-a-changing everywhere else like industry n stuff but he wouldn’t reform

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar

look at this hot piece y would u NOT listen to him

K-POBBY IN DA

HOUSE

Politizzle and Societizzle

• Middle class intelligentsia growing want 2 FIGHT 4 THEIR RIGHT (2 PARTY)

• Liberal- Kadets & Octobrists: less of a threat, but any opposition to the tsar still illegal

• Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)• Socialist Democrats (Mensheviks and

Bolsheviks) (they end up winning and making russia commie later)

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar

assasins n shitaka political opposition

• Populists/Narodniks-• Ideas like ‘The

peoples will’ – BAMFs• Wanted the Tsar out ,

peasants in• Developed into SRsConc.: nobody likes the Tsar (as per)

kinda like this but probably less badass

X Marx da spot (Marxists)

• Social Democratic party most prominent (split to mensheviks and bolsheviks 1903)

• Wanted to overthrow regime proletarian state

• Wanted urban uprising• Most leaders exiled in

w. europe however, less of a threat

Like santa but everyone gets a lump

of coal

Was a big fan of muse

Seven nation army couldn’t hold me back

aka Nationalists• Loads of non-russians in

russia• Not many russians in

poland, ukraine, baltic states and asia= big problem

• But they cant communicate and agree and work together

• So easy to put them down

Pictured: the white stripes’ 7 nation

army being oppressed by a big

red light thing (russia obv)

Russo-Japanese War 1905let me guess do the russians lose oh yes ofc what else would they do lol

• Basically Russians are just really shit at wars

• They lost Port Arthur in Jan• They got their asses kicked at

Tsushima in May (Baltic fleet sailed halfway round the world just to get 25/35 warships crushedddd)

• It was just well shameful and all the Russians were like urgh bun you Nicky

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar (obv.)

Beep beep konnichiwa

bitches

Oh craprun

1905- Bloody (shambles) Sunday• There were 150,000

peeps just wanted to show him a petition in St. Petersburg, peaceful stuff

• Lets not talk about that traitor father Gapon

• But the dumbass son of a bitch Nicky shot everyone

• Like, 1000 people or something it was real sad

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar (again)

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This kinda hurts ngl

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die peasant bitchez

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grrIs that a bear

how long must we sing this song:the 1905 rev

• Strikes everywhere in anger- 400,000 ppl• Transport stopped, peasants attacked landlords

homes• Jan- protestors wanted improved living

standards summer= more politial- wanted duma and political parties

• Oct- general strike in moscow• Puts out October manifesto to calm em down• Troops came back in Dec- crushed everyone• Then Stolypin executed like 1400 people in the

next 3 years to make sure no one did it again

Nicky is a lil shit• Nicky broke the people’s hearts,

they thought he was the ‘little father’ and would protect dem 5eva ;_;

• Crushed a lotta strikes and uprisings after this

• Put out the October Manifesto- to get the liberals to shut up– Gave freedom of assembly– Dropped redemption debts for

peasants

• Completely BACKTRACKED in april with ‘Fundamental Law’ which stated that basically everyone was still his bitches (ultimate power)

bow 2 me peasants

Dat bitch (Stolypin)PM 1906-1911

• Life motto: hang dem commie bitchez

• funny but nobody likes it when the govt. kills everyone!!

• Made some reforms – wanted to get the peasants out of the rut

• He got assasinated in 1911-why am I not surprised- but then he couldn’t finish his reforms

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar

i got 99 problems but a radical aint one

im really into ropes if u get what I mean

Economizzle• 1. it was shitty• Stolypin did some stuff• How do you solve a problem like

peasants???• Peasant land banks- peasants can

buy state lands• Peasant poll tax abolished 1886 • They can get outta da mir without

asking• Got everyone to try and farm in

Siberia (good luck)• By 1914 2 mill had left for the cities• But everyone had to slum it down

and live in janky conditions bad times

• Inflation QUADRUPLED by 1917• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar

ow the sunlight it

hurts

Lol whats a bath

WITTE’S GREAT ‘SPURT’ HEHEHEHEHEHEHE

aka industrialise dat shit

• Had to be special, invented his own plan: the ‘Witte system’ – govt. decides and sponsors the economy

• All about the iron and steal and coal and machinery what a macho man

• Trans-siberian railway was his baby- 7000km of badass from St petey-b’s to vladivostok

• Borrowing money from everyone else (UK, France) yup good idea

• Extra taxes on over taxed peasantry good job man

Choo choo mothafucka

sDamn right its longer than urs

go trans-siberian or go

home

WFX(witte’s effects)

• Finally use dat siberia shit to grow crops

• Coal iron and oil prod. rises• Military power grows• Cities grow massively, St

petey-B has 1 mill 1890 and 2 mill 1914

• But like I mentioned before worker welfare wasn’t exactly the top priority working and living conditions were baaayyyd timez

• So everyone starts getting angsty (basically social unrest)

State DumasDemocracy whats that

• Basically they were a massive joke• Like there was finally a national

assembly but it wasn’t that gr8• 1. April 1906 -lots of Trudoviks and

Kadets (rads and libs)- he got rid of that shit after 72 days

• 2. Feb-June 1907 -Lots of SR and Soc Dem-got rid of that shit after 3 months. Banned Kadets HAHA

• 3. Nov 1907-1912- ‘Duma of Lords and Lackeys’- full of rich bitches kissing the tsars ass

• 4. 1912-1914 Also full of rich bitches

• The liberals and middle class were like wtf is this shit aint nobody got time for that

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar

Ew communism get it away frm me

Lol dumas more like dumbass

Progressive bloc party• Formed aug 1915• ‘progressive’ nationalists,

centrists, octobrists, kadets and progressives (326/422 duma members)- formed their own ‘govt of public confidence’

• Want to pressure govt to reform

• Tsar was like lol no, suspended the duma

• Lets just say they were not happy

• Many of them became PG later

I made this album

cover isnt it gud

WWI: omnishambles• Tsar went off to fight in 1915 but

he was basic as hell and lost all the damn time AND now he got blamed personally

• All the soldiers got the food (and the bread don’t forget the bread) so the normal peeps didn’t get any

• By 1917 they had lost TWO MILLION in CIVILIANS alone

• It was massively expensive, 17 mill roubles spent and they STILL didn’t have enough

• Left Rasputin and Tsarina to run da town, they thought she was a hoe

• Support for the tsar was non-existent by 1916

• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar (even the generals!)

dont u wish ur boyfriend woz hot lyk

me

yup me right over here plz

THE 1917 FEB REV!! (u’ve been waiting 4 this i no bby)

“One of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time” – American historian W.H Chamberlin

listen to what the old guy says khistory books

♫ lets start at the very beginning…

• …a very good place to start♪• A bunch of un-coordinated

strikes first• 9th Jan- 140,000 strike (anniv of

Bloody Sunday, shoulda known that would come back to bite him in the ass)

• 31st Jan- food shortage= more strikes

• ♥ 14th Feb ♥ - 100,000 workers strikin it up

• State Duma turn against the govt and attack lack of food aw sheeeet

dis is a story all about how nicks life got flipped turned upside down

k so I warned you not to forget the bread…

Sweet sweet bread of christ

Feb/Mar 1917 Rev• Feb: Dem russians gettin’

lairy bout dey bread• Govts real clever

everyone wants more bread lets ration it good idea guys well done

• women’s day protests 23rd feb

• Putilov engineering strikes too like 100,000 ppl now woah

• its not just about bread now, they want ryeform

Get bready to crumble

bake loaf not

war

im baguette-ing angry

we’re really croiss(ant)

all you need is loaf

loaf lifts us up where you

belong

r u gna bang

dough

i don’t even knead

that dough

i wont roll with dis

rye so serious??

srsly guys stop these jokes r getting stale

you’re toast, nicholas

rise up against the

govt!!1

I aint leaven

wheat till I get my

hands on u

what ciabatta do

about itThis is getting whey outta hand

u butter not cross

memuch a-dough about muffinbun dis

flour power

doughnut think you can get away with

this

loaf the way u lie

its the yeast you

could do nicky

the rev continues..• 25th feb: over 200,000 people

striking in Petrograd now shit son• every1 gettin’ all up in the govt’s

grill so they dissolved the state duma lol bitch plz whats dat gunna do

• 26 Feb- This time even the troops didn’t shoot them like they did in 1905 so it was major stuff k

• 27 Feb- bye bye Petrograd garrison, they’ve joined the peasants who now have 40,000 rifles muthafuckaaas

• nicky was a weak ass little bitch now

• 1+1=2 L8 to apologise ahahaha• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar bun the tsar

u suk nice hat doe

i would

Ooohhh watching the people get lairy its not very pretty I teeeell thee

Bye nicky nice knowin yanot

• Abdicated 2nd march (the day after Juliana’s birthday yay)

• powa to da PG and the PS• (Provisional govt and petrograd

soviet get it in your brain)• Later the whole fam was shot

sigh bad times• Mayb Anastasia survived??!!1

(Jk that film is a total lie)• Conc.: nobody likes the Tsar• how many times jeeesus

LIES

THE END• Final conc.: nobody likes the Tsar k

hop u enjoyedWen u try ur best n u dnt succeed…

When u get what u want but not what u need…

big finale comin up guys…

I will try…

• To fix youheyo it’s ya boii Leninbrap brap

Check you got everyting: Syllabus• This website is also fab

• What was Nicholas II’s character?  How well-suited was he to rule Russia?  Is it surprising that he was the 'last Tsar'?

• Key problems facing Nicholas II -– Backwards economy– National poverty– Dangers of modernisation

• Key aim: autocracy-modernise without revolution• Main events during Nicholas II's reign to consider:

– Witte and industrialisation drive– Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)– 1905 Revolution - as sparked by Bloody Sunday– Stolypin and agricultural reform– The Dumas and the rise of organised political opposition– Impact of WW1– Abdication after February revolution, 1917