russian rev 1 Flashcards
what is the term for russian “slavery”
serfdom
what are the 4 russian themes
expansion by conquest, the necessity of a strong, central government, Russian orthodoxy, and serfdom
what is the term for russian nobility
boyars
what was the goal of cyril
converting the slavs to Christianity
why doesn’t russia industrialize
there’s no middle class
why wouldn’t gov. purchase modernized equipment
bc they didn’t want to make the serfs job too easy
who was at the bottom of the social class
serfs
who defeats nap
alexander i
who was the man who frees the serfs, and recognized russias need for a revolution
alexander ii (known as tsar liberator)
what was the first terror organization called
peoples will
who starts the trans syberian railway
alexander iii
what is the term for a secret police
okhrana
what is required for russification
everyone has to speak russian and be a russian orthodox christian
in order, who were the 5 19th century tsars
Alexander i Nicholas i Alexander ii Alexander iii Nicholas ii
who was the tsar known as “girly man”
nicholas ii
what does nicholas ii forbid
russian being spoken at the court
what kind of government was russia
autocracy
what is an autocracy
gov. ruled by one person with unlimited authority
why did nicholas ii and his wife become u popular
politically incompetent, they relied on Rasputin, and food and fuel shortages
who was the syberian mystic who was a criminal
rasputin
what were the causes of the revolution
social hierarchy, industrialization, weak economy, foreign influence, russo-japanese war, unrest among peasants and working poor, and the potemkin mutiny
what treaty does roosevelt create
treaty of portsmouth
what is the spark for the 1905 rev
bloody sunday
how do we know when it’s a revolution
when armies move to the side of the people (revolutionaries)
what is a soviet
workers council
what does the october manifesto promise
liberties for the first time ever
what liberties does the tsar promise
freedom of speech/press, and a representative assembly
what are pesants called
dark masses
what is the russian constitution known as
fundamental laws
what did the russian constitution declare
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)
term meaning emperor
tsar
what was the term for serfs being freed from landowners buying people
emancipation of the serfs
The term for leading landowners appointed to control the peasants
land captains
what was the council created to run local administration matters
zemstva (village councils)
when did nicholas ii become tsar
1894
when was the beginning of wwi
1914
who believe in russian superiority and encounter russification
pobedonostsev
who believe that russia could only be great with western values
westerners
who were opponents to western values
slavophiles
what is a period of rapid industrialization called
great spurt
what movement said that society would be based on meeting workers needs
marxism
what was the russian assembly/parliament
duma
what was the name of the battleship that had its crew mutinied
potemkin
what was the elected body who was meant to draw up a constitution
constituent assembly
who was interested in land reform and tried to help peasant
stolypin
what was the hangman’s noose called
stolypins necktie
