Facts n Stats Flashcards
Why treaty was signed to end the Crimean war?
Treat of Paris
What did emancipation do?
Freed more than 23 million serfs
Gave them full rights of free citizens
Meant they could buy land off of landowners
Why wasn’t the emancipation as good as it seemed?
Only privately owned serfs were freed
Many serfs ended up back working for their land owners anyways due to such high prices of land and poor quality of allotted land
Serfs had to pay 49 million in redemption payments
What were the May laws 1882
Prohibits Jews from living outside of larger cities and towns, owning or managing real estate, leasing land, and operating their businesses on Sundays or other Christian holidays.
What was the Polish revolt?
Polish uprisings that took place in the 19th century, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 of the greatest Poles died. The January Uprising cost the lives of an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 insurgents, and 40,000 of them were sent to Siberia.
What did the peasant land banks do?
The Peasants’ Land Bank, 1885 was created to help peasants purchase their own farms. The Peasants’ Land Bank was somewhat limited in its effectiveness by a lack of funding. Bunge also abolished the Poll Tax, which was only paid by peasants, in 1886, which helped to reduce the financial burden the peasants faced.
What were land captains?
Land captains were representatives of the administrative and judicial authority in Russian villages from 1889 to 1917. The land captains controlled the activities of peasant communes
Stats on the famine of 1891-92
The Russian famine of 1891–1892 began along the Volga River and spread as far as the Urals and Black Sea. It caused 375,000 to 400,000 deaths. But affected over 21 million people
Stats+Info on Russo-Japanese war
Fought over Russia’s control of the warm water Port Arthur
Russia - 34,000–52,623 killed or died of wounds
9,300–18,830 died of disease
146,032 wounded
Japan - 47,152–47,400 killed
11,424–11,500 died of wounds
21,802–27,200 died of disease
What was the Bloody Sunday massacre?
When unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present the petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
What were the April theses?
Program developed by Lenin during the Russian Revolution of 1917, calling for Soviet control of state power; the theses, published in April 1917, contributed to the July Days uprising and also to the Bolshevik coup d’etat in October 1917.
Stats on the Great famine 1921-22
The Great Famine reached its peak in 1921 and killed five million, perhaps as many as eight million Russians. The famine was chiefly a natural disaster, in the form of a severe drought, but it was worsened by years of war and forced grain requisitioning.
Stats on the virgin land scheme
From 1954 to 1960, the total sown area of land in the USSR increased by 46 million hectares, with 90% of the increase due to the Virgin Lands campaign. Overall, the Virgin Lands campaign succeeded in increasing production of grain and in alleviating food shortages in the short term.
