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The Decembrist Uprising:
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-Alexander seems cool, but needs support of Boyers so he can't free the slaves or do any other liberal thing
-He dies in December 1835 and officers push liberal ideas -Huge revolt broke out, but it was quickly put down |
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Profile of those who supported westernization and radical ideas in Russia:
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-Young intellectuals
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Characteristics of Russian society in the 19th century:
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-Defied the European pattern of domination
-Launched independence -Learned without destroying culture |
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Conditions in Russia after the emancipation of the serfs:
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-Received land but didn't gain any political freedom
-Increased urban working class for factories -To insure power, Tsars structured government so the Tsars and Boyers still ruled |
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Reasons for the Russian loss of the Crimean War:
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-West was industrially superior
-Mobilized troops with trains |
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Russian reforms in the 1860s and 1870s:
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-Tsars make reforms to keep people happy
-Reorganize military, free serfs, give local governments a bit of power (town councils, zemstoves) -Alexander the II tried to have trial by jury, and reduced censorship |
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Successes of Russian industrialization program by 1900:
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-Not as great as Europe, but good
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General goals of the Russian intelligentsia (university students)
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-Wanted political freedom, social reform, but with a hint of Russian culture in everyday lives
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Political methods used by anarchists to achieve reform:
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-Some of the intellectuals because anarchists who hoped to triumph by winning peasant support
-Some uninterested peasants turned to terrisom -The government exiled dissidents to Siberia -Abolish all forms of formal government |
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The Duma:
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-National Parliament created in Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905; progressively stripped of power during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II
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Conditions in Japan prior to Commodore Perry's arrival:
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-Self-imposed isolation, Japanese renaissance
-More secular, literate, not allowed to travel abroad -Nagasaki Bay |
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Similarities between Japanese and Russian industrialization:
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-Russia isolated because of the Mongols, Japan chose isolation
-Slow to industrialize because unfamiliar with technology -Very little capital for investment (no business competition) -Industrialization had to be promoted by the government |
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Condition of Japanese industrialization pre WWI:
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-Japan was still behind the West
-Dependent on Western imports |
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Aspects of Western culture adopted by the Japanese:
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-Universal education system stressing science, technology, and loyalty to the nation
-Western fashion, personal care, calendar system, and the metric system were all adopted |
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Japan's fate compared to Qing China and the Ottoman Empire:
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-Japan industrialized, the Chinese and Ottomans did not
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Social and cultural changes that resulted because of Japan's Industrial Revolution:
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-Japanese had poor living conditions in crowded cities
-Generations argued over westernization -Emergence of political parties |
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Reasons for Japanese imperialism:
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-To make Japan look strong
-Raw materials -Needed markets to buy goods |
