Social Studies Chapter 4 Flashcards
Absolute Ruler of Russia for over 500 years. Used olive, bureaucracy, and Russian Orthodox church to get what they wanted. People who disagree were exiled or killed
Czar
What is the division for Asian Russia and European Russia?
The Ural Mountains
Ruled by one person with ultimate power
Autocracy
A turning usually away from old ways. It’s a huge change.2
Revolution
Long cold winters, snows on the grind at least 6 months, cold summer, winter lasts 8 months and the sun doesn’t shine for 6 months
Subarctic
Lived like Slaves
Presents
Worked in factories and railroads. Not paid well. Better than peasants
Working Class
Large group of doctors, lawyers, teachers and writers who wanted to get rid of the Czar and form a different government. They could not agree on what it should be. Some wanted to keep old traditions
Intelligentsia
The teachings of Karl Marx. He favored a share in the boss’s money, cleaner and safer working places and decent homes. He called the Father of Socialism/Communism, but his ideas were not as radical as what it became
Marxism
When Russia colonized a country, they wanted the people to speak Russian and adopt the Russian traditions, holidays and religion
Russification
Early 1900s. Fighting over territory, Russia lost.
Russo Japanese War
Ended Russo Japanese War
Treaty of Portsmouth
Led by the priest from the Ukraines in 1905, thousands of workers marched to the Winter Palace of the Czar to beg to end hunger and poverty
Bloody Sunday