history- russian revolution Flashcards
Serfdom
Rigid social structure : Landowning nobles Small middle class Serfs (laborers)
Pogroms
Violent mob attacks on Jews
Conditions in Russia during 1800s - early 1900s
Many problems : famine, filled prisons, peasants want power, defeated by Japan
Russification
Suppressing non-Russian culture and forcing Russian culture (language, etc) on people
Tsar Nicholas II
Weak ruler that causes public and social problems
Russo-Japanese war
Over Korea and Manchuria
Humiliating defeat makes Russian ppl realize they need reform and liberals begin striking/protesting
Bloody Sunday
Peaceful protest outside Tsar’s palace, petitioning for justice (free speech and right to vote), while praising the tsar -> Nicholas scared-> flees palace and calls soldiers->troops open fire on unarmed, peaceful citizens
Father Gapon
Orthodox priest that organized Bloody Sunday’s march
Effect of Bloody Sunday
Kills the hope of the ppl and their trust in the tsar
Causes workers strikes, peasant revolts, etc
Nickname Bloody Nicholas II
1905 revolution
1905 revolution effect
Duma is created
The Duma
Elected national legislature, liked by moderates, disliked by socialists
Nicholas II wife
Alexandra
Heir to the throne after Nicholas II
Alexei
Rasputin
A monk / sorcerer that became extremely powerful in Russia
Why did Rasputin become powerful in Russia
Alexandra turned to him because he said he was able to help alexei
He eventually became really close to the family and held influence over them
Trams-Siberian Railroad
Longest railway in the world
Connected Moscow and Vladivostok
Why was tsar Nicholas absent for a period of time
He went to else the army because 1/3 of Russia’s soldiers had no guns
Who ruled in Nicholas’s absence
Alexandra and Rasputin
What did the Russians claim about Alexandra
She was an enemy spy bc she was born in Germany