Russian Revolution1917 Haitian Revolution1794

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Russian Revolution(1917)Haitian Revolution(1794)

• Krysten Garner

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Haitian Revolution (1794)

• 1794
• French National Assembly abolishes slavery in the
  colonies
• 1794
• -Toussaint takes Mass withCabrera, then rides out
  of San Domingo to rejoin France.
• 4,000 trained troops.
• 1799
• - Toussaint makes a secret treaty with Great
  Britain and the United States,-"No expedition
  shall be sent out against any of the possessions
  of his Britannic Majesty and of the United States
  of America."

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Important Pieces

• Toussaint L'Overture
• Born 1743
• Most influential slave rebellion in the world
• 1776- Freed from slavery
• Joined rebellion in 1792
• Organized slaves into a revolutionary army
• Allied with the French
• ...I want liberty and equality to reign
  throughout St. Domingue. I am working towards
  that end. Come and join me, brothers, and combat
  by our side for the same cause.

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Political Causes

• During 1700s, French settlement
  createdSainte-Dominigue (Haiti)
• Haiti- Mountainous
• French colony grew
• Haiti began producing 40 of Frances sugar

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Religion

• Origin of slaves brought to Haiti encouraged the
  act of Voodoo

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Social Status

• Black, White, Mulattoes-Important in business
  and land owners
• Population between 500-700 Thousand
• High mortality rate due to difficult labor and
  epidemics
• Mulattoes were below the white elite in social
  status but they were definitely above the pure
  African slaves
• Mulattoes were given special privileges that led
  to mulattoes accumulating land and some wealth.

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Economic Stability

• Produced sugar for France to trade with other
  countries
• Prosperity based around the act of slavery
• Early 18th century-producing more than half the
  worlds coffee and 40 of the worlds sugar

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Long/Short Term Results

• Napoleon sent to Haiti was a regiment of Polish
  troops took Haitian wives and raised families.
  Their descendants still live in Haiti and
  maintain their Polish identities
• Established independence in 1804 from France

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Russian Revolution (1917)

• 1st revolution overthrew the autocratic imperial
  monarchy
• 2nd opened with the armed insurrection of October
  24 and 25, organized by the Bolshevik Party
  against the Provisional Government
• Changed in all economic, political, and social
  relationships in Russian society

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Important Pieces

• Outlaw and actually lived in Galicia and
  Switzerland at the beginning of World War 1
• Organized Bolshevik party
• Envisioned socialism

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Political Causes

• Provisional Government held state power and the
  national network of Soviets, led by socialists,
  had the allegiance of the lower-classes

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Religion

• Russian Orthodox Church-January 26, 1918, the
  Council of People's Commissars separated the
  church from state and school
• All church organizations lost the powers of legal
  entity and the right to own property

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Social Status

• November 8
• "We shall now proceed to the construction of the
  socialist order."
• Constant struggle between the socialist classes
  and provisional government
• October 25 Trotsky announced the end of the
  Provisional Government

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Economic Status

• Growth of the Factory Committees
• June 16
• First All-Russian Congress of Soviets
• "creation of new conditions of work".

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Long/Short Term Results

• Hired labor-prohibited
• The right of all citizens to cultivate land by
  their own labor was affirmed.
• The 8-hr day was soon imposed in Petrograd

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Map of Russia
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Map of Haiti 1794
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Similarities/Differences

• Both Revolutions involved strong leaders such as
  Vladimir Lenin from Russia and Toussaint
  L'Overture from Haiti
• Both changed their areas politically, socially,
  and economically
• Although the Haitian Revolution occurred before
  the Russian Revolution in 1917, they are similar
  in their causes
• -both fought for freedom and equality

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What About Gender?

• Haiti-White slave holders over the African women
  produced mulattoes.
• Women were becoming physically exhausted in
  Russia
• Women were not conscious of the limits imposed on
  their individual development or their fundamental
  social rights
• Gender oppression starts to be perceived as a
  limitation of women's freedom when the capitalist
  mode of production asserts itself

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Work Cited

• http//www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/haiti.htm
• http//www.albany.edu/js3980/haitian-revolution.h
  tml
• Bulliett, Crossley, Headrick, et al. The Earth
  and Its Peoples A Global History. Second
  Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.