RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY 1855

Question 1

weakness 1855

Answer 1

lack of warm sea ports, untapped natural recourses, unprotected boarders

Question 2

Russian Orthodox Church

Answer 2

justified autocracy, tsar chosen by god

Question 3

clergy

Answer 3

carried new to Russian people, reinforced orthodox beliefs

Question 4

russification (homengenous)

Answer 4

bind people create loyalty, culture, religion, conduct

Question 5

illegal

Answer 5

political parties/meetings, censorship in books lectures, theatres

Question 6

intelligentsia, Favour democracy

Answer 6

Russian radicles went abroad to practice safely in west

Question 7

tsar 3 principles

Answer 7

autocracy, nationality, orthodoxy

Question 8

backwards 85% serfs

Answer 8

no one/market to invest in, no knowledge bound to land, scared to invest, would have to educate

Question 9

serfs stuck:

Answer 9

unable to grow surplus-outdated methods, infertile soil, mir(strip farming, freq land distributions), pay land owner produce

Question 10

serfs allowed

Answer 10

communal access to grow produce

Question 11

landowners maintained

Answer 11

law and order, supplied state with soldiers (serfs)

Question 12

military backwardness

Answer 12

no correct gear, officers drawn from nobility not knowledge

Question 13

overestimated military strength

Answer 13

1.5m soliders, 45% gpd

Question 14

soldiers conscripted serfs 25y

Answer 14

no incentive, not a good navy, needed to protect boarders

Question 15

peasnts are

Answer 15

illiterate and devout

Question 16

private serfs

Answer 16

couldnt travel marry w/o permission, bound to estate

Question 17

landlord/nobles acted as

Answer 17

judge jury police

Question 18

domestic serfs

Answer 18

8million, no land not paid wages

Question 19

state serfs

Answer 19

treated better (larger land), more access to paid work

Question 20

serfs miserable

Answer 20

long hours worked, not paid well, ate mostly veg soup, squalid conditions