Tsar Nicholas II - IB History Higher Russia A fun, definitely not serious at all look at our bei Nicky's well successful(not) rule of Russia WARNING: Contains expletives at times, but only in jest

1. Nicky II: Ma story
Bitch im
fabulous
No ur not ow
Stop
shooting
me
24 slides about
a useless waste
of space

2. 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

3. 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 fun
luv family
fotos
im having the
time of my life

4. Nick a stupid hoe
aka 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

5. 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

6. assasins n shit
aka political opposition
• Populists/Narodniks-
• Ideas like ‘The peoples
will’ – BAMFs
• Wanted the Tsar out ,
peasants in
• Developed into SRs
Conc.: nobody likes the
Tsar (as per)
kinda like this but probably
less badass

7. 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

8. 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)

9. Russo-Japanese War 1905
let 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 crap
run

10. 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)
ow
This kinda
hurts ngl
ow
ow
ow
ow ow
ow
ow
die peasant
bitchez
ow
grrIs that a bear

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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
mothafuckas
Damn right its
longer than
urs
go trans-siberian
or go home

16. 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)

17. State Dumas
Democracy 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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 k history books

21. ♫ 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

22. k so I warned you not to forget
the bread…
Sweet sweet bread of christ

23. 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

24. 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

25. Bye nicky nice knowin ya
not
• 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

26. THE END
• Final conc.: nobody likes the Tsar k hop
u enjoyed
Wen u try
ur best n u
dnt
succeed…
When u get
what u
want but
not what u
need…
big finale comin up
guys…

27. I will try…
• To fix you
heyo it’s
ya boii
Lenin
brap
brap

28. 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