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Ch. 15: Section 4- People
People
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History
12th Grade
03/12/2009

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Alexander I

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ruled Russia from 1801 to 1825
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Nicholas I

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Alexander I's son.
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Alexander II

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Son of Nicholas II.
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Alexis
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Nicholas II's son who had hemophelia

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Czar Liberator

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Nicholas was known as this for freein the serfs and for his many reforms.
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Grigori Rasputin

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Alexandra relied on him. He was a mystic healer.
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Michael Bakunin

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Radical reformer who advocated anarchy
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Alexander III

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Succeeded his father and vowed to maintain the old order and crush revolutionaries. He died in 1894
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Nicholas II

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Alexander III's son who stated he was going to rule as an autocrat.
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Alexandra
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Nicholas II's wife who influenced most of his decisions
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Vladimir Illyich Lenin

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Known as "Lenin." Led the radical Bolsheviks.

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Nihilists

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rejected all traditions; a latin word meaning "nothing"
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Soviets

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Workers councils

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Conservatives

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Believed in old laws
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Peter the Great

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Ruled Russia in 1698
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Mensheviks

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Believed that Russia needed to develop into an industrial state.

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Bolsheviks

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A radical group led by Lenin

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Karl Marx

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thought that the working class, not peasants, would lead a revolution.
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Secret Police

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Had unlimited power to arrest and imprision people without trial and to censor the press under Nicholas I.
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Abraham Lincoln

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issued the Emancipation Proclamation during American Civil War
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Prince Peter Kropotkin

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A student in the Corps of Pages for the sons of hte aristocracy.
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