The Russi Japaense War

Question 1

Russians really has very little

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Ides of their enemy or the inadequacies or their own forces

Question 2

Running a war 6000 miles from the capital not easy and a series of defeats turned the

Answer 2

Initial surge of anti-Japanese patriotism into one of opposition of the government

Question 3

When Plehve was assassinated in July 1904 what happened

Answer 3

Crowds in Warsaw turned out to celebrate on the streets
-renewed crisis for a representative National Assembly (or duma)

Question 4

November 1904- moderate Pytor Mirsky,who replaced Plehve

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Reluctantly agreed to invite zemstvo representatives to come to st Petersburg for discussions
-all Nicholas would concede was an expansion of the rights of the zemstva

Question 5

Why did the war with Japan arise

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Out of Russians expansionist policy in the Far East

Question 6

What did Russia want to do

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Russia wanted to exploit the area in and around Manchuria, rich in resources and markets but also control the strategic and ice-free port Arthur

Question 7

Why did Japan not want to welcome Russian intrusion

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They had already taken control of the Korean penisula
-did not want to welcome Russian intrusion in an area they had marked out for economic expansion

Question 8

Japan launched surprise attack on Russian ships at port Arthur on

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26 January 1904

Question 9

The Russians completely underestimated Japan which had

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Better trained army and navy
More effective intelligence
Much closer to the action

Question 10

In January 1905

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Port Arthur fell to the Japanese and in March, the Russian army was defeated at Mukden

Question 11

Final humiliation was the naval defeat of the Russian Baltic fleet in May, what happened

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It had sailed almost half way around the world taking over 6 months , only to be destroyed in under an hour by the japanese navy in the Tsushima straits

Question 12

These disastrous defeats on land and sea led to

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Witte being sent off to negotiate the treaty of Portsmouth under which the Russians withdrew from Manchuria and ceded control of Korea and port Arthur to Japan

Question 13

What does Abraham ascher argue - catalyst for meltdown in 1905

Answer 13

Russia might have avoided revolution in 1905 if it had not provoked a war with Japan - catastrophic defeats apshoww how autocratic gov=irresponsible,incompetent and reckless

Question 14

By July 1904 the government was very unpopular

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Assassination of much disliked minister of interior, Plehve

Question 15

Opposition groups demanded

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Changes in ways in which the country was governed

Question 16

When liberals decided to hold a national zemstvo congress in November what happened

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Over 50000 telegrams poured in urging delegates to press for fundamental changes such as extension of franchise, civil liberties and a national representative body

Question 17

A series of ‘banquets’ organised by the union of liberation

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Were really political meetings (not allowed by the law) where the liberal intelligentsia discussed matters to do with reforming the political system and extending civil rights

Question 18

Press reaction

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-press reported the meetings in a manner increasingly hostile to the government
- fact that the banquets were allowed to go ahead and the press reports were not censored = indications of the governments weakness and insecurity