3.1 - Causes of Russian Revolution PERSPECTIVES Flashcards
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Perspectives
Weaknesses of Tsar Nicholas
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- “I am not prepared to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling” (Nicholas II)
- Democracy: “senseless dreams” (Nicholas II)
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Perspectvies
Kadets
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- “bourgeois political naïvity” (Lenin)
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Perspectives
Telescoping Revolution
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- “sometimes History needs a push ” (Lenin)
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Perspectives
Socialist Revolutionaries
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- “revolutionary pyrotechnics ” (Lenin)
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Perspectives
Russo-Japanese War
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- “The Japanese are infidels. The might of Holy Russia will crush them” (Nicholas II)
- Japanese are “little yellow monkeys” (Nicholas II)
- “a little victorious war to stem the tide of revolution” (Plehv, Interior Minister)
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Perspectives
October Manifesto
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- “‘freedom’ must become the slogan of government activity. There is no other way of saving the state” (Witte)
- “I cannot squander a legacy that is not mine to squander” (Nicholas II)
- “like a nightmare to me” (Nicholas II)
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Perspectives
Duma
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- “I have a constitution in my head, but as to my heart, I spit on it” (Witte)
- “Curse the Duma” (Nicholas II)
- “I created the Duma, not to be directed by it but to be advised” (Nicholas II)
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Perspectives
Stolypin’s Reforms
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- “derevolutionising of the peasantry” (Stolypin)
- “wager on the strong” (Stolypin)
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Perspectives
World War One
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- “headquarters has completely lost its head” (Polivanov)
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Perspectives
Nicholas as Commander in Chief
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- “nervous and did not know what to say” (Brusilov)
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Perspectives
Ministerial Leapfrog
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- “the Russian empire is run by lunatics” (Paleolgue, French ambassador)
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Perspectives
February Revolution
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- “hooligan movement” (Tsarina Alexandra)
- “The situation is serious. The capital is in a state of anarchy. The government is paralysed” (Rodzianko)
- Warnings were “some nonsense” (Nicholas II)
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Perspectives
Dual Authority
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- “The Soviet had power without authority; the Provisional Government had authority without power” (Kerensky)
- “the Provisional Government exists only so long as it is permitted by the Soviets” (Guchkov)
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Perspectives
April Theses
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- “produced the impression of an exploding bomb” (Trotsky)
- “rearming [of] the Bolshevik ranks” (Trotsky)
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Perspectives
July Days
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- “Damnation to those traitors who abandon their brothers who are shedding blood at the front” (Kerensky)
- “dark, difficult days” (Zinoviev)