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37 Cards in this Set
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How big is Russia?
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14 million square miles
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How many people are in Russia and where do they live?
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120 million people and they live in the countryside
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What was the official capital and the traditional capital of Russia?
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Official Capital was St. Petersburg and Traitional Capital was Moscow
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What were the 5 largest cities with a population of 120,000?
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Warsaw, Kiev,Odessa,Wooch, and Riga
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What is autocracy?
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All legal power concentrated in the hads of the tsar.
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Why was it legally rational for only the tsar to have all of the power?
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Because of Divine Right Monarchy
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What is Divine Right Monarchy?
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God hand-picked the tsar and therefore you can not go against the tsar because then you would be going against God
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What are capitalists?
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Owners of manufacturing needs and production
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What is an officer corpse?
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Leadership of the military
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True or False: The Church and State(King) had alliances with each other.
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True
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What was the main church?
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Russian Orthodox Church
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In practice, Monarchs had to deal with power centers, interest groups. WHY?
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They had to balance their wishes with the powerful peoples' wishes
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True or False: The nobility always had a say.
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True
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Christianity is divided into what 3 groups?
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Roman Catholoicism, Protestant, and Orthodox
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Where was orthodox mainly practiced?
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Eastern most regions of Europe and in the Balkans
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When dealing with Russian History what must we really focus on?
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The Tsar himself because he had so much power. Must concentrate on the individual.
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What was Alexander III ruling period? Who is he the father of?
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1881-1894 and his son is Nicholas II (1894-1917)
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In one word describe Russia as a whole.
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Backwards!!
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Alexander II
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-Horrible loss of Crimean War
-"Turning back the hands of time" -Believed in conservatism and reaction -When under pressure he was a conservatist 1855-1881 (was blown up, assasinated) -somewhat intelligent |
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What did the loss of the Crimean War cause?
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Social and Economical reforms
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Alexander III
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1881-1894
-pretty dumb -reactionary -did not like the social progress |
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Nicholas II
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-1894-1917
-imbecile (figuratively), had no backbone, controlled by his wife, modest and intelligent but a wimp |
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What was Nicholas II's belief in what to do with Russia?
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"Change Nothing:" freeze Russia so that he could allow his son to pursue how he wants to pursue it (stupid move)
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What happens when you dont give the people contentment?
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They get consistently repress and then you are looking toward a reolution
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Revolution Discontentment with slaves.
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-made up 90% of the population
-would soon go on the warpath |
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When did the original revolutionary thought first surfaced?
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December 1825 with the Decemberist Movement
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What is the "Decemberist Movement?"
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-Napoleanic wars bring this about.
-Russians play major role and even occupy Paris, France -priviliged Russians are appalled at the backwardness of Russia -killing the tsar was the only solution |
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2 forms of revolution
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1) discontent among common people
2) organized revolutionary thought |
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Products of Decemberists
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-Social Revolutionaries (SRs)
-Social Demcrats (SDs) |
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Social Revolutionaries
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-complete transformation of Russian society (socialist paradise)
-vehicle was the peasants -want to end private property -leaders: educated, children of the aristocracy |
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Social Democrats
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-democrats
-vehicle was the working class -admired and idolized Karl Marx -want to destroy the Russian state and doesnt want to reform it or change anything -revolution is the answer -a new state where everything would be owned collectively |
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What does not exist in Russia?
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Agricultural production doesnt exist and the farms are non-functional
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What is Russia's problem?
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-completely backwards
-most russians live in small villages away from modern European life -poor,agrarian, illiterate -no national network of schools |
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Russian Land Control
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-Large amounts of land controlled by aristocrats
-aristocrats exploited the funds and made no attempt to modernize their farms -most of the land was in the hands of the communes |
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Opposing to modernization meant what for peasants?
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No tractors, no hirers, and the end result was that production got behind and peasants were facing year to year financial struggle
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Serfdom
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-serfs are emancipated in 1861 because of the backwardness of society
-mentality of a slave |
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When did industrialization came?
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Very late, 1880s
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