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Russia and Japan
Chapter 28
Question | Answer |
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Catherine the Great | -Expanded Russian territory -Introduced Enlightenment ideas -TOOK BACK REFORMS |
Alexander I | -Conservatives wanted to restore monarchy -Set up the Holy Alliance |
Holy Alliance | -Russia, Prussia, and Austria joined together to stop the spread of liberal ideas |
Pushkin | Poet, romanticism |
Nicolas I | Put in repressive society - secret police - censorship of schools and newspaper |
Decemberist Uprising | revolt of western oriented army officers the first day Nick I was on the throne |
Foreign policy | -Put down revolts in Eastern Europe -Expanded into the Ottoman Empire |
Economy | -little to no industry -increased labor obligations on serfs -imported manufactured goods from the west -Crimean war: showed Russians they needed to industrialize |
Alexander II | -Freed serfs from serfdom -Liberal -Began Westernizing -Assassinated by radical terriorist group -Recruitment for army extended |
Emancipation Edict | -Freed Russia serfs -Kept part of land but payed for it -Nobles kept most fertile land -No political rights at a national level -Some worked in factories |
Redemption Payments | Serfs paid for the land to the landlords |
Mir | Russia Village that was run by a elder - paid taxes to council - no one went against the elder - set times to harvest - when leaving, they're granted a passport that was paid for and still paid for taxes back home |
Zemstvos | -Local political council: middle class - helped schools, roads, regional policy's - had no national influences |
Women | -Higher education -Worked in medicine |
Trans-Siberian railroad | Connected Euro Russia with Pacific - iron, coal - exported grains -printing factories - metal working |