Why the people of Rusia emmigrate to other countries in the s.XIX-XX?

Marta Mañé AlmenaraAnna Mañé García

Marc Rabascall GaratacheaMireia Vidal Gibert

Political Situation in Rusia

- The Russian Empire was officially founded under the Romanov dynasty (the family that appear on the picture). Peter the Great governement from 1682 to 1725, Peter defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War, forcing cede Karelia to the west and the entrance.

- The reforms of Peter led Russia to considerable cultural influences of Western Europe.

Political Situation in Rusia

- Iosif Stalin (the man that appear in the picture) was a dictator. Stalin needed a central manegement of economy, the countries rapit industrialitzation in march of rural an lectivitzacio.

- Agricultur in the Soviet Union transformed the passing of an agricultural economy to an industrial power.

FIRST WORLD WAR and Rusia

- In 1914 the Russian government considered Germany to be the main threat to its territory. This was reinforced by Germany's decision to form the Triple Alliance. Under the terms of this military alliance, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy agreed to support each other if attacked by either France or Russia. In 1907 Russia joined Britain and France to form the Triple Entente.

- Industrial unrest in Russia continued throughout this period and in 1912 hundreds of striking miners were massacred at the Lena goldfields. During the first six months of 1914, almost half of the total industrial workforce in Russia took part in strikes.

- In 1914 the Russian Army was the largest army in the world. However, Russia's poor roads and railways made the effective deployment of these soldiers difficult.

How the horror starts?

- Needed from the help of the people to face to the war with Japan, the government allowed that a congress of the zemstvos should meet in Saint Petersburg in November, 1904.

- When the requests of reform were rejected by the government, they were assumed by the socialist groups, which organized several manifestations.

- Thousands of persons guided by Gueorgui Apollónovich Gapón (the men that appear on the picture) went pacifically towards the Winter palace to present there his protests.

- A lot of people die.

Why the people emmigrate? RUSIAN REVOLUTION, 1917

-This massacre indicated the beginning of the revolution; manifestations and continuous strikes were celebrated in all the areas industrialized of the country.

- To flow of the events, cocktail with the disaster of the war against

Japan it forced the czar to realize certain grants.

- It promised the formation of a representative assembly or Duma- Nevertheless, it could not stop the march of the revolution.

Why the people emmigrate? RUSIAN REVOLUTION, 1917

- This strike was accompanied of nationalistic movements of dissatisfaction in Finland and in Poland and peasants' revolts, to what the complete defeat of Russia was added in the war against Japan.

- The government sent troops against the revolutionaries and gave support to the conservative groups.

- The government was done again under control of the country.