Chapter 1 Timeline Flashcards
1
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1853
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October - Turks declared war (Crimean war start)
2
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1854
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Defeats at:
Balaclava - October
Inkerman - November
3
Q
1855
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West advanced/Russia rural
March - Alex II became Tsar
4
Q
1856
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Treaty of Paris - no warships in Black Sea
Alex II looking into emancipation
5
Q
1858
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Censorship relaxed (1858-70)
6
Q
1861
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Decision to emancipate serfs
7
Q
1862
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Golovin - minister for education (1862-67)
8
Q
1863
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Volosts ran their own courts
Education reforms: 1863-4
Polish rebellion - lenient treatment of poles reversed
9
Q
1864
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Local government reforms (1864-70)
Judiciary reforms
10
Q
1866
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- Alex II replaced 4 reformist ministers with conservatives
- emancipation applied to state owned serfs
- government control reasserted in education
11
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1870
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Elected town councils (Dumas) set up
12
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1874
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Military reforms (1874-75)
13
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1880
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Loris melikov constitution
14
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1881
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- March - Alex II accepted loris melikov constitution but died same day
- Alex III became tsar
- ‘manifesto of unshakeable autocracy’
Jewish pogroms of 1881-84
15
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1882
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Statute on police surveillance gave police more power
