Russian backgrounder

Question 1

geo, climate, and land

Answer 1

largest land empire taking up 1 sixth of land

Question 2

vast empire problems

Answer 2

defence

-transportation

-fast communication

-large population and diversity (hard to govern)

Question 3

population

Answer 3

-grew rapidly from 56m-126m throughout 1897

-was diverse with finnish, polish, ukranian, turkish, mongolian, armenians, and russians (55.6M)

-russia populated with lots of jews who faced tons of discrimination at the time

Question 4

russian society

Answer 4

-very little progress in last decade

-social system found on serfom

Question 5

serfdom

Answer 5

-lower class people, did all the agriculture, engendered labour

-50M from 60M were in serfdom

-half were owned by the state or bought by landowners

Question 6

Slavophiles

Answer 6

in support of the monarchy

Question 7

westernizers

Answer 7

-modernize russia

-turn it to the west

Question 8

peasents

Answer 8

had no say in anything

Question 9

russian economy

Answer 9

-dominated by agriculture (unproductuve)

-1800 russia produced so much pig iron but 1855 britain had the most causing underdeveloped banking system

Question 10

trading

Answer 10

-very hard

-basically impossible to send/receive raw material, finished goods, etc

Question 11

Tsarist autocracy

Answer 11

autocracy, orthodoxy, nationality -Nicholas 1