Key figures Flashcards
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Tsar Nicholas II
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- inherited throne 1894
- autocratic beliefs
- father failed to provide training of affairs of the state
- in charge of russification
2
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Tsarina
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- wife of Nicholas II from 1894
- also believed in autocracy
- unpopular at court
- disliked idea of political reform
3
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Uncle Sergei
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- opposed political reforms/liberalism
- implemented use of secret police
- assassinated due to autocratic beliefs (by member of SR)
4
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Stolypin
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- prime minister 1906
- supported autocracy
- believed reform was essential to solving Russia’s problems
- made agricultural reforms
5
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Witte
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- miister of finance (1905 - 06)
- prime minster (1905 - 06)
- in charge of building Transiberian railway
- believed in capitalism
- influenced by revolution in US and Europe
- made Russia dependent on foreign loans
6
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Pobodonostev
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- Nicholas II tutor
- was nationalist
- influenced Nicholas’ beliefs
- chief minster
- disliked liberalism and democracy
- bilieved in autocracy
7
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Lenin
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- 1897: exiled to Serbia
- 1903: led Bolshevicks
- 1921: introduced new economic policy
- disliked tsardom
- powerful revolutionary
- wanted russia to be a communist state by reshaping marxist theory)
-saw russia as totalitariast
8
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Plekhanov
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- also a marxist theorist
- drawn intopopulist mvement (aimed at peasants)
- leader of populist group (1877)
9
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Milyukov
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- liberal politician
- leader of constitutional democratic party
- tried to bring liberal groups together
10
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Chernov
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- leader of russian revolutionary party 1902
- spent most of his life in exile
- became minister of agriculture (1917)
- shaped populist strategy
- helped for SR in 1901
11
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Trotsky
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- 1905: became chairman of st petersburg soviet
- drawn to menshivism
- exiled from 1906 - 17
- developed theory of ‘permanent revolution’
- became bolshevik after exile
- organised bolshevik rising 1917
- assassinated on Stalin’s orders
12
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Guchkov and Rodzianko
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- ## leading members of octoberists
