russian rev 1 Flashcards

1
Q

what is the term for russian “slavery”

A

serfdom

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2
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what are the 4 russian themes

A

expansion by conquest, the necessity of a strong, central government, Russian orthodoxy, and serfdom

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3
Q

what is the term for russian nobility

A

boyars

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4
Q

what was the goal of cyril

A

converting the slavs to Christianity

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5
Q

why doesn’t russia industrialize

A

there’s no middle class

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6
Q

why wouldn’t gov. purchase modernized equipment

A

bc they didn’t want to make the serfs job too easy

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7
Q

who was at the bottom of the social class

A

serfs

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8
Q

who defeats nap

A

alexander i

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9
Q

who was the man who frees the serfs, and recognized russias need for a revolution

A

alexander ii (known as tsar liberator)

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10
Q

what was the first terror organization called

A

peoples will

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11
Q

who starts the trans syberian railway

A

alexander iii

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12
Q

what is the term for a secret police

A

okhrana

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13
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what is required for russification

A

everyone has to speak russian and be a russian orthodox christian

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14
Q

in order, who were the 5 19th century tsars

A
Alexander i
Nicholas i
Alexander ii
Alexander iii
Nicholas ii
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15
Q

who was the tsar known as “girly man”

A

nicholas ii

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16
Q

what does nicholas ii forbid

A

russian being spoken at the court

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17
Q

what kind of government was russia

A

autocracy

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18
Q

what is an autocracy

A

gov. ruled by one person with unlimited authority

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19
Q

why did nicholas ii and his wife become u popular

A

politically incompetent, they relied on Rasputin, and food and fuel shortages

20
Q

who was the syberian mystic who was a criminal

A

rasputin

21
Q

what were the causes of the revolution

A

social hierarchy, industrialization, weak economy, foreign influence, russo-japanese war, unrest among peasants and working poor, and the potemkin mutiny

22
Q

what treaty does roosevelt create

A

treaty of portsmouth

23
Q

what is the spark for the 1905 rev

A

bloody sunday

24
Q

how do we know when it’s a revolution

A

when armies move to the side of the people (revolutionaries)

25
Q

what is a soviet

A

workers council

26
Q

what does the october manifesto promise

A

liberties for the first time ever

27
Q

what liberties does the tsar promise

A

freedom of speech/press, and a representative assembly

28
Q

what are pesants called

A

dark masses

29
Q

what is the russian constitution known as

A

fundamental laws

30
Q

what did the russian constitution declare

A

the autocracy of the russian tsar, the tsar is supreme of the law, it gave people basic human rights but the couldn’t go above the supremacy of law (tsar was above the people)

31
Q

term meaning emperor

A

tsar

32
Q

what was the term for serfs being freed from landowners buying people

A

emancipation of the serfs

33
Q

The term for leading landowners appointed to control the peasants

A

land captains

34
Q

what was the council created to run local administration matters

A

zemstva (village councils)

35
Q

when did nicholas ii become tsar

A

1894

36
Q

when was the beginning of wwi

A

1914

37
Q

who believe in russian superiority and encounter russification

A

pobedonostsev

38
Q

who believe that russia could only be great with western values

A

westerners

39
Q

who were opponents to western values

A

slavophiles

40
Q

what is a period of rapid industrialization called

A

great spurt

41
Q

what movement said that society would be based on meeting workers needs

A

marxism

42
Q

what was the russian assembly/parliament

A

duma

43
Q

what was the name of the battleship that had its crew mutinied

A

potemkin

44
Q

what was the elected body who was meant to draw up a constitution

A

constituent assembly

45
Q

who was interested in land reform and tried to help peasant

A

stolypin

46
Q

what was the hangman’s noose called

A

stolypins necktie