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Last Tsar of Russia, executed by revolutionaries and known for being a notoriously weak leader.
What is Nicholas II?
Laws that prevented the abilities of the Duma before the first Duma even began
Fundamental laws
This law granted legal freedom to the low level peasants in Russia who were agricultural laborers.
What is Emancipation of the serfs?
Person was so despised by the Russian nobility, that he was poisoned, shot and drowned by the conservative courtiers.
Who is Giorgi Rasputin?
First chancellor of the German empire
What is Otto Von Bismarck?
Leader of the Bolshevik party.
Vladimir Lenin
Duma heavily run by Stolypin so that landowners would gain more power and actually support the Tsar making this Duma last longer than the others.
What is Third Duma?
Revolution that was not a sudden event that was the culmination of years of discontent with many factors like poor economic conditions.
What is 1905 revolution?
Country Tsarina Alexandra, Nicholas’s wife is from creating tension in Russian people
What is Germany?
Queen of France known for her extravagant parties and mismanagement of money during times of economic hardship. Executed by guillotine.
Marie Antoinette
Name of Tsar known for emancipation of the serfs and was assassinated in 1881
What is Tsar Alexander II
Written by Nicholas II on urges from Witte to respond to revolutionaries and gave citizens free speech, the right to vote and created an elected assembly called the Duma.
What is October Manifesto
Father Gapon Led a non-violent march on the Tsar’s winter palace calling for things like basic civil liberties. The Tsar was not there and They were dispersed violently by soldiers killing over 100.
What is Bloody Sunday?
Event celebrated by Royal tour of Russia by Nicholas II after he disappeared for 8 years
What is the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty?
the members of the second estate in the estates general
Nobility
Prime Minister of Russia known for Agricultural reform including allowing peasants to enclose there lands creating small farms.
What is Pytor Stolypin?
This Duma only met for a few months in 1907, the more radical social democrats were elected to the Duma. This Duma was quickly dissolved since it constantly opposed the Tsar.
What is second Duma?
War in 1904 when Russia wanted to expand into Manchuria and Korea and they fought over port Arthur.
What is Russo - Japanese war?
What condition did Alexandra’s son Alexei, heir to the throne have during the royal tour that caused Alexandra to disappear a lot
What is hemophilia?
The leader of France during the Franco - Prussian war
What is Napoleon III?
Prime Minister of Russia who promoted industrial reform making him unpopular among the Tsar and his supporters. Known for trans-siberian railroad.
Sergei Witte
Decisions between socialists and octoberists hampered this duma’s ability for success. It was dissolved during World War I
Fourth Duma
Workers committees setup in factories during the 1905 revolution to plead for workers rights.
What is Soviets?
An event after Nicholas II’s coronation where over 1300 people were trampled to death.
What is khodynka tragedy?
Invention by John Kay to make it easier for one person to produce woven cloth, mechanically instead of by hand
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