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25 Cards in this Set
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Nature of Tsarism in Russia |
-autocratic
- executive, administrative and legislative power - spiritual and political power |
think louis the 14th...
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Why was Nicholas II seen as ineffective/ unliked?
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- indecisive ( strikes and bloody sunday)
- russification (minority unrest) -itiated pograms |
peaceful protests meet with violence
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What lead to the downfall of Nicholas II? |
- seen as not doing enough(peasants and liberals)
-appears leniant( lost support of conservatives) -Russo-Japenese War ( they were losing) -Rasputin ( lost nobility support) - WWI- took controll of losing army. |
lover of the russian queen
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Political changes after 1905 Revolution?
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- limitrd Duma( kadets- moderates) |
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Economic Changes after the 1905 Revolution
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-Stolypin introduced land reform ( favored Kulaks)
-1906-1914 industrial boom brought on urbanization -workers easily organized/ protests grew |
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show 2 contradicting actions of the Tsar which lead to his characterization as indicidive
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1. Bloody Sunday: REPRESSION
2. October Manifesto allowed duma: REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS |
what a tease
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Show how the regime was unwilling to change |
-bloody sunday
* add conservative ideas |
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show how the WW1 interferred with natural reform progression
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- october manifesto ( duma)
* other liberal ideas |
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How was WW1 catalyst for the Rev?
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1. military failures |
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Quote from trotsky referring to who led to the feb unrising?
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"to the question 'who led the feb uprising?' we can answer definitley enough: conscious and tempered workeds educatied in the main by the party of lenin |
favours lennin
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Chamberlain quote referring to rev as spontaneuous and anomymous
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"THe collapse of the Russian Autocracy ... was on of the most leaderless, spontaneous , anonymous revolutions of all time" Chamberlain 1935
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Petrograd pre 1917
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famine ( 24 hour bread lineups)
poverty ( workers laid off) |
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Affects of INternational WOmens day 1917
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- women gathered with men to protest |
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Reaction of Tsar to Bloody Sunday ?
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ordered troups to march on the capital
suspended duma ( who had sugguested constitutional monarchy) |
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KEY ISSUES IN 1917
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- involvement in war
- how to redistribute the land - how to deal with monorities who are growing more independant - economy sucks - social and worker reform |
poverty and minorities led to unrest
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How did lennin return to russia?
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german trains
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APril thesis beleived:
( answers to 1917 key issues) |
- world wide social revolution
-immediate end to war - end to co-operation with provisional gov - land given to power PETROGRAD SOV. TO TAKE POWER |
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Lennin quotes
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" all power to the soviets"
"Bread, peace and land" |
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who wanted offensive war and who wanted defensive in 1917?
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- kadets wanted gains while socialists wanted defensive war
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REsults of Summer offensive?
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- thousands desserted and 100,000 killed
- kerenskys propaganda stirred support |
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Land reforms
what were the difficulties? |
peasants wanted land promised in emancipation act |
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National Minority demands included:
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indpendance for Finns ( like erik) and poles |
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Economy In 1917 problems for provisional gouv. ? |
-Loss of thousands of jobs from feb-july
-peasants would not sell grains even when P.g offered double -inflation made money worthless -war chewed up resources |
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Quotes Referring to Alexander Kerensky |
"the first love of the revolution"
"The poet of freedom" "The saviour of the fatherland" |
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WHo was Kornilov?
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Aristocratic Leutinent who was hired by Kerensky to protect Petrograd. Had many noble and aristocratic supporters adn Kerensky wanted to gain noble support as well
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