Alexander III Flashcards
When did Alexander III die?
-1894
Under who did the Great Spurt take place?
-Count Sergei Witte
What did Witte bring about?
-the Great Spurt
What was the Great Spurt?
- A period of rapid and sudden industrialisation
What was created under Alexander III?
- the working class
At what rate did industry grow?
-6%
What process did Alexander believe in and use to rule Russia?
-Russification
Name the opposition during Alexander III’s reign
-People’s Will, peasants, middle class, Marxist groups ((RSDLP)), national minorities
How did Alexander III deal with the national minorities?
-Jewish pogroms, Ukranian language, school textbooks and culture repressed, encouraged Black Hundreds to attack Jewish, Russification
What was a negative effect of the Great Spurt and industrialisation?
- those who moved to the towns suffered greatly due to poor working conditions and low living standards
How did Alexander III deal with opposition?
- repression, the okhrana // 1881, some appeasement methods and tactics, infiltrating revolutionary groups, banning political parties, 26,000 killed without trial
How many people were killed without trial?
- 26,000
What was the effect on foreign investment by the Great Spurt? Why?
- foreign investment increased, because the rouble was placed on a gold value scheme system
Why did more foreign investors invest in Russia and Russian trade etc?
- rouble placed on a gold value scheme system, the Great Spurt
Why did the middle class protest? What did they want?
- more political freedom and involvement and voice, they had everything else
