russia society Flashcards
is it more or less industrialized than other places
less industrialized
they had the smalles ___ class
middle class
they had the largest population of:
serfs
were they likely to have or not have a communist society
less likely
what was the relationshop of orthodox church with the state
very powerful and allied with state
what are the 2 big religions other than orthdox
south- muslim
west- jewish
Who was Nicholas I again>
he got into carimean war and showed russia was weak and backwards
who is Alexander II (1815-1881)
Best, most liberal czar
for the first 10 yeras,w aht does he do
lots of reforms and modernization
in 1861, he gets rid of which concept
serdom
where were serfs put on?
communal lands
mirs
communal lands
what was the issue with serfs living on mirs
hard to improve things or become entrepreneur, no one was better or more succesful since everyone is sharing
what are some other reforms
favorable courts, fair law codes, education (which all only basically helped bourg. but at least its a beginning)
Whats a big change
he allowed local areas to have assembly and for the first time, people had rights
(no national assembly yet)
Why did he stop doing reforms
someone tried to kill him
when reforms stopped, which two raidcal isms came up?
anarchism, and nihilism
anarchism
destroy all institutions of power
nihilism
nothing matters
violence
Alexander II was planning to have an assembly butttt what happens that makes him not b able to
gets killed by nihilists when they packed bombs in snowballs
Who was Alexander III and his characteristics (1881-1894)
Very reactionary (conservative)- like Nicholas I
what happened to local assemblies?
lost their power
what was Russify
nationalism for russia
for nationalism, what did he do
russian in schools only
orthodox religion dominates
