Tsarist Russia
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 27 sep 2017
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Created byDan The Chicken
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Eventos
defeat of Russia in the Crimean War
1856Tsar Alexander II becomes Tsar
1855Tsar Alexander II is assassinated
1881Emancipation of the serfs
1861Alexander III becomes Tsar
1881Alexander III dies
1894Tsar Nicholas II becomes Tsar
1894Tsar Nicholas II is executed
1917Russian defeat in war against Japan
1904-19051905 revolution
Included:
Bloody Sunday
Potemkin mutiny
Strikes and army mutinies
Creation of a Soviet or worker's councilWW1 begins
1914Polish revolt against Russian rule
1863Assassination attempt
1866Some Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Party
1898Bloody Sunday (massacre of peaceful protesters)
January 1905Sometime in Nicholas II's rule
A new chief minister, Pyotr Stolypin, ruthlessly stamped out revolt
and offered land reform to the peasantry to win their supportPeríodos
1856 - 1894
Reforms: Emancipation of the serfs
Military length was considerably reduced
Censorship was relaxed
Local government assemblies, or zemstvos, were set up
Justice system was reformed, and ,and more open and independent
Universities were allowed to run their own affairsZemstvos powers were reduced
Land Captains, with power over peasantry
were appointed
Extended censorship
More government interference in courts
Higher education restrictions
Pogroms encouraged against Jews
Measures were taken to suppress nationalist
feeling in regions of the Russian Empire such as Poland1881 - 1894
Influenced by his adviser Pobedonostsev,
Al III reversed the liberal measures of his father1894 - 1817
During Nicholas II's reign there were important
social and economic developmentsRussia began to industrialize and although it remained a predominantly agricultural society,
there were growing numbers of workers in the larger cities
Growing pressure on the land from an expanding
rural population, mostly subsistence farmers
The defeat against the Japanese to the East led to
a series of incidents known as the 1905 revolution
The duna (parliament) was set up and appeared to offer hope of reform
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