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| tenant farmers are bound to a plot of land and to the will of their landlord |
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| a goverment in which one person ruls with unlimited authority |
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| who ruled from 1801 to 1825 |
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Russian officers staged a revolt in December 1825 that was crushed by the Russian government |
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| to stengthen the autocracy and suppress all opposition |
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| Son of Nicholas I, undertook the task of saving the autocracy and perventing a revolution |
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freeing of a group of people ( in Russia, it was the serfs) |
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| village communities that were granted varying amounts of the landlords’ holdings for which they had to undertake a 50-year mortgage |
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| locally elected assemblies that took charge of provincial matters such as schools and health care |
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| nickname for Czar Alexander II. He received this name for freeing the serfs and for his reforms |
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| son of Czar Nicholas II, suffered from hemophilia (disease that prevents the normal clotting of Blood) |
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| hypnotist who had huge influence over the czar |
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| wanted anarchy and believed that governments, families, laws, and property should not exist |
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| the absence of government |
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| believed Russia would have to destroy the czarist autocracy and build a completely new society |
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| populists believed that peasants would eventually lead a revolution, overthrow the czar, and establish a socialistic society |
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| He succeeded his father by ruling Russia and vowed to maintain the old order and crush revolutionaries. |
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| became an official policy of intolerance and persecution of non-Russian peoples |
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| Russia’s predominant religion |
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| organized, bloody massacres of a minority group |
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| Alexander III son and new czar of Russia. |
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plotting against Tsar Alexander III |
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| believed that Russia needed to develop into an industrial state with a sizable working class before a socialist revolution could occur |
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| believed that a small party of professional revolutionaries could use force to make a socialist society |
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) [image] |
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| war from 1904-1095 between Japan and Russia over the control of Manchuria |
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| a battle during the Russo-Japanese war that was the largest land battle in history to that point |
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| naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War in which Japan humiliated Russia’s navy |
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Theaodore Roosevelt [image] |
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| president of the USA at that time |
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| worker’s councils that were formed to voice the worker’s grievances (elected government councils) |
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| legislature, made law by Czar Nicholas II |
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| issued by the Czar, which granted civil rights to citizens and allowed the Duma to make laws |
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| a hymn that people sang on the day Czar Alexander proclaimed an end to serfdom |
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Prince Peter Kropotkin [image] |
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He became the personal page of Alexander II. |
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| comprised nearly two-thirds of the population of Russia |
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| ruled by Russia that was granted a constitution from Czar Alexander I |
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| had impact on Russian officers who fought in it. The Officers were impressed by the reforms in Western Europe |
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| a government in which one person rules with unlimited authority |
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| had unlimited power, under Czar Nicholas I, to arrest and imprison people without trial and to censor the press |
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| Russian losses in the war weakened the Russian Empire |
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| stretched from Europe to the Pacific Ocean and existed until the Czar autocracy was discontinued when Lenin came to power |
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| freeing of a group of people (in Russia, it was the serfs) |
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| an area of the Russian Empire that the government forced Jews to live in |
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| form of government in which the powers of the ruler are restricted to those granted under the constitution and laws of the nation |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| declared an end to slavery in the United States including the Confederacy, and discouraged France and England from entering the war on the Confederate side |
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| a region, now in Northeastern China, that was fought over between Russia and Japan in the Russo-Japanese War |
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| the location of Bloody Sunday |
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| January 22, 1905, 200,000 workers peacefully surrounded the czar’s palace with a petition demanding reform. Hundreds of workers were killed when Palace soldiers fired on them. |
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| Peter was tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. His self-given title was Peter the Great though he was officially Peter I. |
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