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political context: how can the Russian empire be described in 1855

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autocratic

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political context: Who was the head of the empire

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tsar

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political context: what title did the tsar take

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‘emperor and autocrat of all russia’

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political context: who was at the head of the Russian orthodox church in name only

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the tsar

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political context: what was the tsar believed to be by orthodox believers

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The embodiment of god on earth

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political context: what were Russians taught to show to the tsar

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devotion and accept their conditions on earth as the will of god

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political context: what did the patriarch of Moscow provide for the tsar

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spiritual guidance

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political context: what was the procurator of the holy synod

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gov minister appointed by tsar to run church affairs

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political context: why were the structures of the church and state intertwined

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those at the head of the church hierarchy were subject to tsarist control over appointments, religious education, church finance

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political context: what is an edict

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an official order issued by a person/authority

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political context: how much involvement did the tsar have in making edicts

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he had advisers and ministers but they were all chosen by the tsar himself and no one could do anything without tsars approval

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political context: who were the tsars main advisory bodies

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The imperial council/chancellery

The council of ministers

The senate

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political context: The imperial council

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body of 35-60 nobles picked my tsar himself to advise him personally and provide their ‘expert’ opinion

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political context: council of ministers

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Body of 8-14 ministers in charge of different government departments

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political context: The senate

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Supposed to oversee all the workings of the gov

We’re largely redundant by 1855

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political context: Where were the tsar and central gov based

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in the imperial capital of St Petersburg

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political context: who did the regime also depend on and why

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The provincial nobility for support

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political context: provincial definition

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Living away from the capital

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political context: Since when had nobles not been obliged to serve the state

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since 1785

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political context: how can nobles loyalty to tsar be described

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sense of obligation remained strong and all landowners expected to keep order on their estates

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political context: Civil servants

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Paid noble officials selected from a table of ranks that laid down the requirements for office

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political context: How many levels were there in the table of ranks

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14

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political context: What did each level in the table of ranks have

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It’s own uniform, form of address and status

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political context: What was the bureaucracy riddled by

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Internal corruption and incompetence

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political context: What was operation in the bureaucracy

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One way with no provision for suggestion

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political context: How big was the tsars army

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1.5 million- worlds largest

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political context: Who were the tsars army made up of

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Conscripted serfs- each forced into service for 25 years

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political context: Where were the conscripted serfs made to live

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In a military colony

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political context: How much of the governments spending was absorbed by army and navy

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45%

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political context: Cossacks

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Service of elite regiments belonging to tsar with special social privileges

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political context: What did the Cossacks act as

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Personal bodyguard for tsar and police reinforcements

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political context: What had the country developed into to maintain autocracy

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A police state

33
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political context: What did the police state prevent

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  • freedom of speech, the press and travel abroad

- political meetings and strikes

34
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political context: What was present at every level of government

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Censorship

35
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political context: What was the secret state security run by

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The third section of the emperors imperial council

36
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political context: What did third section agents do

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Keep a strict surveillance over population

37
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political context: What did third section have power to do

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Carry out raids, arrest and imprison and exile anyone suspected of anti tsarist behaviour

38
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political context: What convinced Nicholas I to follow a path to repression

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A military uprising against his rule in Dec 1825

39
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political context: Nicholas I reign

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1825-1855

40
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political context: What did Nicholas I deliberately seek

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To distance Russia from the west- areas he most feared liberal ideas were spreading

41
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political context: How did Nicholas I reign end

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Military defeat at Crimea

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political context: What did the military defeat at crimea bring to light

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The need for change to the new tsars attention

43
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the economic situation: Which 4 countries were well advanced industrially when AII came to power

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Britain, Belgium, France and states comprising germany

44
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the economic situation: What were transforming the landscape in well industrialised countries

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Mills, factories and railways

45
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the economic situation: What was Russia’s economy mostly comprised of

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Rural with a ratio of 11:1 village to town dwellers- 2:1 in Britain

46
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the economic situation: Reasons for Russia’s economic backwardness

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Much of territory was inhospitable

size and climate placed severe strains on economic development

47
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the economic situation: Who was europes main exporter of agricultural produce mid 19th century

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Russia

48
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the economic situation: What did Russia possess vast reserves of

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Timber, coal, gold and oil

49
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the economic situation: Why did Russia’s potential remain untapped

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Communications between different parts of empire were poor

50
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the economic situation: Primary cause for Russia’s lack of economic progresss

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Russia’s commitment to a serf based economy

51
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the economic situation: Who were reliant on serfs

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Landowning aristocracy, tsarist gov and army

52
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the economic situation: Why did the serfs inhibit economic development

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They were poor and had little incentive to develop into wage earners

53
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the economic situation: why were few goods purchased by peasants

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they were mostly self suffiecient

54
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the economic situation: how did exchanges take place in peasant markets

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‘in kind’: one thing swapped for another

55
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the economic situation: where were market forces beginning to develop

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near large cities

56
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the economic situation: why were market forces beginning to develop near cities

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peasants sought wage-work at slack times in the farming year

57
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the economic situation: what were attitudes like towards market force amongst the majority

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money irrelevant and there was no internal market demand

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the economic situation: how did the small landowning elite obtain what they needed

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from their serfs in the form of service and feudal dues

59
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the economic situation: what were the landowning elites generally uninterested in

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how efficiently their estates operated

60
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the economic situation: what did serf owning provoke for many

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idleness

61
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the economic situation: why was their no opportunity for capital accumulation

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income was generally falling

62
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the economic situation: why was income genrally falling

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rural population growth and agricultural changes in western Europe- increased competitiveness and productivity of European markets

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the economic situation: what had the increased productivity of European markets forced land owners into

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debt and had to take out mortgages on estates which had previously been owned outright be their families

64
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the social context: social division in Russia 1855

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between land owning elites and serf majority

65
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the social context: what did the land owning elite consist of

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the clergy, nobility, civil officials etc

66
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the social context: who else was in productive classes in addition to serfs

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urban artisans, manufactures and merchants

67
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the social context: what was the striking feature of mid nineteenth Russian society

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the absence of any coherent middle class

68
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the social context: intelligentsia

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small number of professionals e.g. doctors but these were sons of nobles often

69
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the social context: what was class based on

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birth, land and service

70
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the social context: what limited social mobility

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legal barriers

71
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the social context: what were serfs restricted by socially

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dues and direct/indirect taxes to the government

72
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the social context: what did the elites pay tax wise

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they were exempt from monetary taxes

73
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political context: what did the civil servants make up

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the bureaucracy

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political context: bureaucracy definition

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system of gov in which most important decisions are taken by state officials rather than elected reps

75
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political context: who were the higher ranks of the military reserved for

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nobles who bought and sold their commissions

76
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political context: what was discipline like for the lower ranks

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harsh discipline and army life was tough

77
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political context: what did alexander I consider setting up following the French revolution

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an advisory representative assembly

78
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political context: what did Nicholas I believe in

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strict autocracy and severe restrictions imposed on russias nationalities

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