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Initially favored some liberal ideas, increasingly reactionary after 1815

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Czar Alexander I

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1st major attempt to stop growth of liberalism

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“Holy Alliance”

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Officials trying to put Constantine in power, officals killed so Nicholas becomes Czar

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Decembrist Uprising

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becomes czar at the end of the uprising

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Nicholas I

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Russian village, Mir, is superior to anything in the west might have to offer, will support czar, want support from Orthodox church

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Slavophiles

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Extend the genius of russian culture, by creating a constitutional governments, want to end serfdom, think they will achieve this through revolution

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Westernizer

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Greatest reform-minded czar

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Alexander II

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Abolishes serfdom, allows serfs to choose jobs , and own property through contract

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Emancipation Acts

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Communal home

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Mir

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District assemblies, local administrative bodies, people elect who is in them

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Zemstovs

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No government control of state

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Anarchy

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Anarchist who wanted state to be destroyed completely

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Mikhail Bakunin

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Most reactionary czar of the 19th century

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Alexander III

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3 points to help and reform government

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Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Russification

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violent attacks, primarily against Jews

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Progroms

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no definition

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Theodore Herzel, zionism

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wants to build big factories in Russian society, Russia goes under gold standard

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Count S.Y, Whitte

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Comes to power after Alexander III dies

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Nicholas II

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war between Japan and Russia, Russia loss

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Russo- Japanese war

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Ports, NH; Russia has to acknowledge that Japan owns Korea, also have to share Sicelan islands

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Treaty of Portsmouth

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Workers march to winter palace, many killed by palace officials

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Bloody Sunday

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A rise in liberal ideas, bad economic condition

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Revolution of 1905

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creation of Duma

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October Manifesto

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first Russian national Parliament

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Duma

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New prime minister , want to make reforms in Russia, wants to break up mirs, assassinated in 1911

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Peter Stoylpin

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heir to Marx in socialist thought

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Vladimir Lenin

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The minority, wanted to await the evolution of capitalism and the proletariat; sought a more Democratic Party with mass membership

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Mensheviks

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The majority- followed Lenin’s ideas

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Bolsheviks

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formed workers’ soviets

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Leon Trotsky

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starts by massive strike in streets led by women over a food shortage; causes Nicholas II to abdicate

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February Revolution

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Influenced Alexandria to do bad things, seen as a mad man in the eyes of Russians

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Rasputin

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a dual government, ruled Russia

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Provisional Government

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leader of the provisional government but also a member of the Petrograd Soviet

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Alexander Kerensky

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consisted of workers and soldiers who had overthrown czar, mensheviks led at the organization

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Petrograd Soviet

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strips all officers of authority and places powers in hands of elected committee of common soldiers

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Army Order #1

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Lenin rejected all cooperation with the bourgeoise provisional government

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April Thesis

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Con. plotted to overthrow Kerensky’s provisional government, plot failed w/out bloodshed, Bolsheviks cast themselves as defenders of revolution

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Korniliv Affair

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Leon Trotsky led the soviet overthrow and arrest of the provisional governmentm collapsed with little bloodshed. Bolsheviks officially took control of government

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October Revolution

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Tried to organize revolution, composed of: LENIN, TROTSKY, STALIN, Zinoviev, and Bukharin

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Politburo

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eventually the communist party, army of Bolsheviks

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Red Army

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The secret police, created in December to eliminate opponents

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Cheka

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New name of the Bolsheviks

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Communist Party

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Took Russia out of WW1

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Treaty of Brest- Litovsk

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War between two central groups in Russia fought over government control

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Russian Cilvil War

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Bolsheviks/ Communists

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Reds

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Everyone else, included officers of the old army, and 18 groups proclaiming themselves to be the real government of Russia, no real leader

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Whites

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earliest form of socialism in the Soviet Union, applied a total war concept, declared all land nationalized, state took control of heavy industries, peasants forced to deliver food

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“war communism”

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no definitions

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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