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23 Cards in this Set
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What was Alex II nickname?
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Tsar Liberator
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How much did Russia cover the world's surface?
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1/6th
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Since when was the Romanov dynasty?
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1613
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What were the 4 pillars of Tsarism?
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1) Bureaucracy
2) Army 3) Russian Orthodox Church 4) Nobility |
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What was the bureaucracy meant to implement and enforce?
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Government policies
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Name a weakness of the bureaucracy
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Slow moving and very corrupt
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Weakness of the church
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Priests ordered to preach obedience led to unpopularity
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What was the problem with a multi national state?
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Non Russians resented living under what they saw as an alien Russians rule and many were thirsty for independence and suppressed because of it
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What was the population in 1831?
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56 million
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What was the population in 1881?
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98 million
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Conditions in Siberia?
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Unpopulated and under developed containing Black Earth
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What did Tsar do to multi national states?
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1) Poland granted an archbishop
2) Finns granted a currency 3) Restrictions on Jews differed |
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How many timezones did Trans Siberian Railway (1905) cover?
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8
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Population in 1914?
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170 million
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Defeat in what war made Tsar want to modernise?
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Crimean War
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Name 2 judicial reforms in 1864?
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Trial by jury 1870 and gave judges greater independence 1864
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Name 2 military reforms
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Involved improvements in officers training and abolition of corporal punishment
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Name a local government reform
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The Zemstva - included health, education and road building
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When was the emancipation of the serfs?
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1861
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How long did redemption payments last for?
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49 years
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When did he die?
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1st of March 1881
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What radical Populists assassinated him?
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People's Will
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What did PW ask of them?
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Free elections, universal suffrage and end to censorship
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