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Revolution
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NO, they were ruled by an autocratic government and entered the movement very late in the game.
Did Russia participate in the beginging of the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment Era?
100
Food prices rise and peasents experience bread shortages.
What is the economic effect of the war on food supply?
100
They were rioting, seizing and burning land and houses because they were angry about the food shortage.
What is reason troops fired on the peasents in 1917 in St. Petersburge.
100
They were a major power but always experienced interal conflict and struggled to keep up with Great Britain.
Was Russia ever a realy contender in the Great World War?
100
Collapse of old Russian order, 2 million dead, food shortage, high food prices, rioting and increasing militery force lead to the revolution.
How did the economic situation in WWI sow the seeds for the Bolshevik Revolution?
200
When the lower class are tied to the land and work for the nobles.
What is surfdom?
200
Russia exited WWI due to internal strife.
Why did Russia exit the war?
200
NO, they were replaced with more military force by adopted a military government, economy and society.Total militarisitc control took over under Lenin.
After the war did Russia return to a non military state?
200
The lower class wanted more freedom and a right to the economic benifits of the Industrial Revolution.
As the country became more industrialized what happened to the social classes?
200
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, a Maxist organization that infultrated the govenment under the name of the St. Petersburg Soviates.
What does RSDLP stand for and who were they?
300
Leaders of the Duma formed a provisional government.
What happened after Nicholas II was abdicated?
300
4th largest producer
Once Russia caught up with the Industrial Revolution they quickly became, what rank, amoung leading nations?
300
Laiodong
In the Russo-Japanese of 1904-1905 what peninsula did Russia ced to Japan?
300
Surfs
The tasr enjoyed auto cratic rule over the nobles and the nobles held virtual power over who?
300
Yes, free thinkers who traveled to Europe came back and preached revolutionary ideals. NO, some believed returning to the old country ideals was best for them.
Did the Western Ideals every reach the back countries of Russia? Did every village in Russia agree with the ideals from Western Enlightenment and radical change.
400
NO, he did not. He was interested in the European disparity between the social classes as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
Was Marx's from Russia? Did he have the Russian plight in mind when he developed the concept of Socialism?
400
Steel and oil
What did Russia produce that aided them in economic stability?
400
Russian military leadership was lacking during the war. Instead of seeking quality leaders through proven battle experience, as did the Germans and French, the Russians promoted via political connection. The Czar himself, hardly a military wizzard, stayed near the front and made many important military decisions.
What was Russia's weakest quality during WWI?
400
Taking power from the nobles and braving their opposition or...for 500...
How did Russia inforce centralized authority over the state (2 part question)
400
Alexander II, but the conditions left peasents poor with little oppurtunity to better their situations. As a result they turned back to the system.
Which Russian Tsar emancipated the serfs in 1861? What happened to the serfs?
500
NO
In the history of Russia had they ever successfully existed under a democratic government?
500
Russia did not have a warm water port and wanted to occupy Manchuria and Korea which belonged to the Empire of Japan. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Russia pushed their way in and started building inroad transportation. Japan issued and attack.
Why did Russa go to war with the japanese?
500
The Russian revolutionary Lenin, long in political exile in Switzerland, was spirited across Europe in a sealed train by the German governement. His arrival in St. Petersburg quickly escalted an already volative situation into outright revolt. The Czar was forced to abdicate, the monarchy destroyed. Instead of signing a peace treaty with Germany/Austria the new Russian 'governement' just decided to stop the fighting. German units wished a more formal end of the conflict so they pressed forward, occupying parts of the Ukraine and Latvia. Not wishing to see further territorial losses, the Russians at last agreed to sign a treaty with Germany ending the fighitng.
Lenin chose a very significant time to return from exile, what was his purpose and whay happened upon his return?
500
Compensating nobles for decreaded power in government and giving them greater power over their land and occupants.
The other way tsars centralize authority...
500
A revolt occured amoung the peasents, workers and intellects in an effort to improve working conditions. Nicholas II was forced to grant them civil liberties and a legistative assembly but after the revolt he with drew these promises and continued to rule as an autocrate.
What signifigant even occured in 1905 under the rule of Nicholas II?
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