QR Challenge: How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. The Middle Class liberals wanted to participate in government and have some form of elected national assembly. | 1
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2. Students had protested against repressive government controls. | 2
| 3. Tsar Nicholas II was weak and indecisive. | 3
| 4. No freedom of press, no freedom to protest and no freedom to form political parties. | 4
| 5. Socialist revolutionaries wanted peasant revolution to create socialism based around peasant communes. | 5
| 6. Social Democrats (Marxists) wanted urban working classes to stage revolution to create a socialist state, then communism. | 6
| 7. A repressive government. The Okhrana spied on anyone deemed to be an enemy of the Tsar. However, in 1904 more liberal Svyatopolk-Mirsky became Minister of the Interior. He granted more press freedoms. | 7
| 8. Peasants and urban workers were squeezed hard by Witte’s industrialisation policies of high taxes and low wages. | 8
| 9. National minorities (Finns, Poles and Jews) wanted more autonomy and freedom. Also wanted an end to the policy of russification. | 9
| 10. Peasants were unhappy due to poverty, the need for more land due to increasing population, high taxes and redemption taxes on land. The population had increased from 98 million in 1885 to 125 million in 1905. | 10
| 11. Bloody Sunday - 22nd January 1905. 150,000 people joined a protest march in St. Petersburg. The Tsar’s troops fired on peaceful demonstrators causing 200 deaths. | 11
| 12. An economic slump after 1902 led to high unemployment and higher social tension in towns. | 12
| 13. Famine occurred in 1901. Poor harvests in 1900 and 1902 also led to starvation and violence in the countryside. | 13
| 14. Workers worked long hours, had low pay, terrible working and living conditions. They also wanted more political power. Large slums had developed in cities such as St. Petersburg. | 14
| 15. No movement towards a constitutional government or democracy. | 15
| 16. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904 inflicted humiliating defeats on the Russian army and navy. Also led to shortages of food and fuel, high prices and unemployment. | 16 |
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Middle-Class-liberals-wanted-to-participate-in-government-and-have-some-form-of-elected-national-assembly.
Question 1 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Students-had-protested-against-repressive-government-controls.
Question 2 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Tsar-Nicholas-II-was-weak-and-indecisive.
Question 3 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=No-freedom--of-press,-no-freedom-to-protest-and-no-freedom-to-form-political-parties.
Question 4 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Socialist-revolutionaries-wanted-peasant-revolution-to-create-socialism-based-around-peasant-communes.
Question 5 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Social-Democrats-(Marxists)-wanted-urban-working-classes-to-stage-revolution-to-create-a-socialist-state,-then-communism.
Question 6 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-repressive-government.-The-Okhrana-spied-on-anyone-deemed-to-be-an-enemy-of-the-Tsar.-However,-in-1904-more-liberal-Svyatopolk-Mirsky-became-Minister-of-the-Interior.-He-granted-more-press-freedoms.
Question 7 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Peasants-and-urban-workers-were-squeezed-hard-by-Witte’s-industrialisation-policies-of-high-taxes-and-low-wages.
Question 8 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=National-minorities-(Finns,-Poles-and-Jews)-wanted-more-autonomy-and-freedom.-Also-wanted-an-end-to-the-policy-of-russification.
Question 9 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Peasants-were-unhappy-due-to-poverty,-the-need-for-more-land-due-to-increasing-population,-high-taxes-and-redemption-taxes-on-land.-The-population-had-increased-from-98-million-in-1885-to-125-million-in-1905.
Question 10 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Bloody-Sunday---22nd-January-1905.-150,000-people-joined-a-protest-march-in-St.-Petersburg.-The-Tsar’s-troops-fired-on-peaceful-demonstrators-causing-200-deaths.
Question 11 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An-economic-slump-after-1902-led-to-high-unemployment-and-higher-social-tension-in-towns.
Question 12 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Famine-occurred-in-1901.-Poor-harvests-in-1900-and-1902-also-led-to-starvation-and-violence-in-the-countryside.
Question 13 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Workers-worked-long-hours,-had-low-pay,-terrible-working-and-living-conditions.-They-also-wanted-more-political-power.-Large-slums-had-developed-in-cities-such-as-St.-Petersburg.
Question 14 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=No-movement-towards-a-constitutional-government-or-democracy.
Question 15 (of 16)
How far was Witte’s economy responsible for widespread rebellions and protests in 1905?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Russo-Japanese-War-of-1904-inflicted-humiliating-defeats-on-the-Russian-army-and-navy.--Also-led-to-shortages-of-food-and-fuel,-high-prices-and-unemployment.
Question 16 (of 16)
