tsars

Question 1

peter the great

Answer 1

absolute monarch
reorganize military by creating navy
conscription
increase control over central royal bureaucracy (nobles must serve in military or civil service, non nobles can rise through civil service)
impose mercantilism
control of nobles (westernization
takes control over Russian orthodox church by abolishing office of patriarch and replacing it with procurator (appointed by the tsar)

Question 2

alexander I

Answer 2

itially wanted reforms

but then becam econservative

Question 3

nicholas I

Answer 3

decemberist uprising

reactionary conservative

Question 4

nicholas II

Answer 4

mass industralization
russian revolution of 1905
march 1917 (provisional governmetn)
october 1917 (bolshevik)