Russian Revolution Flashcards
What is russification and why was this not what happened in the last years of 19th century?
The empire established a forced assikilation to the russian culture trying to avoiud intervention from the west however, russian literature and music and culture in the late 19th century became even more connecctedd to western civilization as people discoverd more russian artist.
What were some challenges and opportunities of Russian industrialization?
Opertunities :
countable, convertable currency,
railways milleage doubled
letters and more post offices accesable
Challenges:
no machine tools
few chemical plants but with foreign ownership
factor work for workers hard
Descrive==be the life of the peasants and what they wantedd and also explain what a kulak is
Peasant life was hard!
Still had to pay redemtion funds
had to pay for cost of industrialization
lived in communes and communitys (mirs)
Kulak: Peasant owning peasants
Who were the populists and what did they want?
Populists had faith in the russian people and belived peasant life was important, Belived cpaitalism could be skipped.
Peasants werent ready for capitalism (not modernized enough)
from intelligensia
When was the social revolutionary party formed and who made up its members?
Was formed in 1901
middleclass intellegent
marxism
lenin, stalin, trotsky
Who made up the intelligenstis and what did they want?
Overthrow the tsar
mostly gov. spies
peasants werent gonna do anything so intelligensia needed an army
educated younger belived in assasinaiton.
Who was lenin and what prepared him to lead a revolution?
Lenins brother was in a plot to assasinate the tsar so he could not practice law
exiled to siberia he devoted his whole life to revolutionn!!!!
What led to the formation of the social democratic party and how did they interpret marx in their current circumstances?
People who were exiled and had different ideas based on european ideas
belived it was an international movment NOT just russia
needed capitalism so was against the increased mirs
did not approve of assasination and terrorism
did not think peasants were in the place to rise up so needed dictatorship
What were the goals of the second party of congress of Russian Marxist in 1903 and what happened
Goals were to unify russian marxism but in the end seperated into bolsheviks and mensheviks
Who were bolsheviks and mensheviks?
Bolshevik wanted a tighter group of dedicated people and controll/dictatorship, it needs to happen now
mensheviks wanted looser membership, new ideas, it will come in time
Lenins veiw on imperialism
Imperialism is capitalism at its final stage so capialism at a big scale, country on country exploitation
Prior to 1905 was the growing disconect led by political parties ?
Peasant uprisinng and unrest, political parties were not talking to eachother
WHat kind of leader was Nicholas II
narrow outlook, god given rols
conservative and traditional
WHy did russia pursue a war with japan in 1905 and how did it turn out
Ports in japan and to create more attachment and appeal for the tsar and government if won because it would be a quick succesful war. Kinda the opposite happened creating more critics tothe regime
WHat was father gapon trying to accomplish
HGe wasnted to organize factoryu workers counter the unrest of revolutionarys but he also empathised with peasants wich led to his petition for minum wage and how many hours a day could be worked
