6.2 Flashcards
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The Austrian Empire going towards Ausgleich of 1867:
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- after revolution of 1848: had the law to free serfs, BUT! centralized autocratic government
- 1851: centralized autocracy was created, revolutionary constitutions abolished, HUNGARY was controlled by military officers, catholic church was given more control
- Italian war in 1859: king created parliament had that elections, SUPPOSED to represent nationalities, but only represented german-speaking majority
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The Ausgleich of 1867:
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- this happened after the austro-prussian war when the hungarians/magyars got mad
- it created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- Austria and Hungary would have a separate constitution, legislature, and were independent in DOMESTIC affairs
- both would be under common Habsburg ruler, army, and foreign policy
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Continued Slavic Discontent from Ausgleich
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- the ausgleich only made magyars/hungarians happy
- the slavic regions wanted a triple monarchy but didn’t get it
- therefore, they were still unhappy and this carried on into WWI
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Leading up to reforms in Russia
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- the crimean war showed how russia was falling behind
- this led to other reforms (zemstvos)
- serformdom caused russian landowners to not being able to compete with foreign agricultural, serfs were uneducated and defenseless, and local peasant revolts
- this led to the emancipation edict to abolish serform
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Abolition of Serfdom in Imperial Russia
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- peasants had SOME benefits
- however! they didn’t get great land from the government because landowners kept the good ones
- also peasants were expected to repay the state, so they had to deal with the MIR
- overall, the emancipation didn’t really do anything
6
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Mir/ Village Commune
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- responsible for collecting peasant taxes
- basically owned the land peasants were buying
- reluctant to let peasants leave
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Other Reforms by Tsar Alexander II
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- he put in the zemstovs that gave everyone some benefits, but overall not and did not create the wanted-NATIONAL assembly
- legal reforms (created later on) however accepted the principle of equality
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Zemstovs
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- created local assemblies that showed a moderate degree of self-government
- representatives were elected, but the voting system caused nobles to have advantage
- it had limited power to provide stuff
- could levy taxes, but they were turned down
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Effect of “Other Reforms by Tsar Alexander II
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- reformers wanted more and faster change
- conservatives didn’t want any change at all
- then…. many reform movements emerged (populism)
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Populism
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- came from Alexander Herzen’s ideas
- they wanted to create a new society through revolutionary acts of PEASANTS
- because the peasants didn’t support them, they started to become violent
- after the king was killed by them, the next king was more repressive
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Alexander Herzen
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- ”Land and Freedom”
- he believed that the russian peasants must be the chief instrument for social reform
12
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Great Britain: the Victorian Age
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- reform act of 1832: made industrial middle class happy (representation)
- 1860s: the parliament started to make reforms (stable, prosperous)
- britain was also stable because its economic growth
- also the working class had some benefits (wages increased)
- more people were enabled to vote (extension of franchise)
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Disraeli and Tories/Conservatives
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- with more people being able to vote, the tories (conservatives) wanted to win over the “new enfranchised groups to conservative party”
- so they passed the reform act of 1867
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Effect of Reform Act of 1867
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- with more people being able to vote, the liberal and conservative parties wanted to win over people who are allowed to vote
- so liberals and conservatives started to get competitive
- this led to the competition of Disraeli and Gladstone
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Reform Act of 1867
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- lowered money requirements for voting
- so it helped more urban workers being able to vote
