Russian Empire

Introduction Peace! Land! Bread! The Russian Empire was not a good place to be in around 1918, WWI was going badly, food was scarce, and the economy was backwards. Back then Russia was rule by a czar. The government was corrupt. Clearly, all of this put together caused unrest. So, people decided that they'd had enough, and after two revolutions, Russia became the Soviet Union, which, in case you haven't already figured out, is not ruled by a czar. February Revolution The February…

Under Stalin’s control, the Soviet Union experienced a foundational transformation that served to create a new empire. The Communist Party became the core of the state, forming a government of party leaders and soviets, as well as replacing capitalist elements of the former era with the ideology of socialism. Stalin’s Soviet Union also underwent rapid industrialization, shifting the country’s chief economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Nevertheless, the push for industrialization saw…

RUSSIA IN THE 1900’S From 1896 Tsar Nicholas II has ruled the Russian empire taking over from his late father Alexander 3rd. With social classes still as prominent as ever despite the freeing of peasants in 1861 by Tsar Alexander II (Tsar Nicholas grandfather), the Great Russian empire has a social structure like a pyramid. The Tsar and his government placed at the top and peasants at the bottom. PEASENTS: Life as a peasant as we all know is hard. It requires hours on end of work and hardship…

has published many books concerning Russian history, such as A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, which received the Wolfson History Prize and other awards as well. Figes has proven to be a very accomplished author, proving the world with comprehensive information about Russian history, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. In his book, Revolutionary Russia, 1981-1991, he provides a complex history of Russia, including the Russian Revolution of 1917. Though he…

Nicholas ll was the very last Tsar of Russian. He was removed during the Russian Revolution and executed by the Bolsheviks. The expulsion of tsar occurred in various ways. Nicholas ll himself, being a ruler, and the execution of him and his family. Tsar Nicholas ll government name is Nikolia Aleksandrovich Romanov. He was born on May 18, 1868 near St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the eldest son of Tsar Alexander lll. When he succeeded his father in 1894 he became in power that year, even though…

Sergei Podbolotov is an instructor of Russian and European history, teaching primarily on the courses of Russian civilization. He is the author of multiple scholarly articles, covering subject matter from national problems in the Russian Empire to Russian nationalism and conservatism. In addition to this, he is a recipient of IREX awards for research. In his work, Monarchists Against Their Monarch: The Rightists Criticism of Tsar Nicholas II, he addresses the criticism of Tsar Nicholas II from…

The defeat the Crimean War impacted on Alexander II was massive, the humiliation and shock he felt in regards to the Russian military 's incapability and as truly a wake up to just what the government needed to do in order for Russia to both modernise and industrialise. The embarrassing loss in Crimea and the true nature of Russia 's backwardness genuinely portrayed just how crucial reform was, especially for Russia 's military. Alexander II was desperate to catch up to the west and regain…

The Russian Empire of 1860 was increasingly desperate of reforms and more so the creation of an Imperium was necessary since western historian and soviet scholar believed that the feudal world was becoming inevitable. In fact, researchers such as Smith have shrewdly pointed that within the soviet culture and achievement of reforms of the 1860s; have been less highly valued than in our bourgeois world 176. The great reforms aimed at balancing interests of different social groups – feudalism even…

Tsar, and he was totally unequipped to deal with it. Founder of Spartacus Educational and former history teacher John Simkin states, “Nicholas inherited from his ancestors not only a great empire, nut also a revolution. And they did not bequeath him one quality which would have made him capable of governing an empire. Or even a country" [Simkin, 1997] The system needed reform, but he was unwilling to limit his power at all, for the sole reason that he thought it was his duty to pass on his full…

Romanov autocracy. Susan Walker describes Romanov’s outdated policies saying: “[Nicholas] had total faith in the age-old formula which ‘reduced the essential elements of the Russian Empire to three: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.’ These sacred beliefs left little, if any, room for the development of new ideas or Russian progress. Nicholas’ close minded and weak nature was, in essence, the beginning of the downfall of himself, his family, and his nation.” (Walker) Like his father,…