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Events
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Fill in the Blank
100
In 1861 the _____ were emancipated; they received land but did not gain any political freedoms.
serfs
100
threatened traditional and social hierarchies in Japan and Russia, territorial expansion as a means of mollifying the aristocracy and building support for the imperial government, the samurai in Japan were almost destroyed and the aristocracy in Russia was threatened by the abolition of serfdom
What is industrialization?
100
Agricultural entrepreneurs who utilized the Stolypin and later NEP reforms to increase agricultural production and buy additional land.
Who were the kulaks?
100
In 1861 the serfs were emancipated; they received land but did not gain any ______.
political freedoms
200
Reforms introduced by the Russian interior minister Piotyr Stolypin intended to placate the peasantry in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905; included reduction in redemption payments, attempt to create market-oriented peasantry.
What were he Stolypin Reforms?
200
Introduced by the Russian interior minister Piotyr Stolypin in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905; included reduction in redemption payments, attempt to create market-oriented peasantry
What were the Stolypin Reforms?
200
In the 1860s and 1870s, ________ improved law codes and created local political councils with authority over regional matters.
Alexander II
200
Anarchists sought the abolition of all _________.
formal government
300
A member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.
What was a bolshevik?
300
A war within the Ottoman Empire in the 1870's; brought substantial gain; successfully aided the creation in the Balkans of new Slavic nations
What was the Revolution of 1905?
300
was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet union from 1922, until his death
Who was Vladmir Lenin?
300
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a war within the _______ in the 1870s.
Ottoman Empire
400
Russian term denoting articulate intellectuals as a class; 19th-century group bent on radical change in Russian political and social system; often wished to maintain a Russian culture distinct from that of the West.
What is Intelligentsia?
400
Led by anarchists in 1881 (hint: involved the death of a leader)
What was the assassination of Alexander II?
400
Political groups that sought the abolition of all formal government; particularly prevalent in Russia; opposed tsarist autocracy;eventually became a terrorist movement responsible for the assassination of Alexander II in 1881
What are anarchists?
400
In Japan, the samurai were almost destroyed by _______. (list one)
fall of the shogunate the destruction of feudalism military reform
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