far was Russia politically stable from 1905-1914? • Lena Goldfields – workers were shot for causing unrest (x) • Massive increase in strikes (x) • October Manifesto • Fundamental Laws 1906 (x) • Creation of the dumas • Vyborg appeal • Stolypin To what extent was Nicholas II responsible for his own downfall in the revolution of March 1917? (February) • Nicholas’s refusal to make concessions • Russia’s performance in WW1 • Impact of the war at home • The Bolshevik • The people
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How far did Witte improve and modernize the Russian economy? Before Witte came into power‚ Russia was in a state of crisis. Due to many factors (including the tsarist system‚ geography and lack of education and ingenuity) Russia was 500 years behind the western powers. Witte‚ as finance minister oversaw Russia’s transition economy from 1892 to 1903. Witte aimed for greater exports‚ ambitious industrialization‚ and large foreign loans. He hoped to modernize Russia and make it competitive with other
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Between 1861 and 1917‚ Russian society had undergone many changes. It is safe to say that every aspect of that society had been some how modified. These changes led up to the Bolshevik revolution in November of 1917. Given the nature of Russian society‚ was the Bolshevik revolution unavoidable? <br> <br>Among the changes Russian society had undergone‚ one starts off the whole chain of events. This was the emancipation of the serfs‚ in 1861‚ by Czar Alexander. The emancipation freed 44 million peasants
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Questions and Anwers: Russia 1. What effect did the Decembrist Revolt had upon the character of Czarist rule? The rising of the Decembrist Russia was due to a momentary confusion over the succession. In 1825‚ Alexander I died suddenly. Alexander’s younger brother‚ Constantine‚ who was next in line‚ had no desire to assume the troublesome burden of ruling and unsettled and distrusted empire‚ so he renounced his right of succession in favour of his brother Nicholas. Nicholas‚ however‚ had been left
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Stalin’s Five Year Plans What were they The Five Year Plans were a series of nationalized plans for the economic development of the Soviet Union When First Plan (1928-1933) Second Plan (1933-1937) Third Plan (1938-1941) Purpose One of Stalin’s main goals was to increase the output of industrial goods‚ and he placed emphasis on electrical power‚ capital goods (ex. coal‚ iron‚ and machinery)‚ and agriculture. Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union’s economy self-sufficient
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Pulitov Steal workers on the 18th of February 1917 started out with one company‚ but the frustration with the Tsar wasn’t just in one factory. In exactly 12 days one strike had turned into a revolution the reason was that the reforms of Witte and Stolypin .With the peasants now in factories it ment they lacked farmers and had nobody to farm the good harvests in the war years‚ in fact the harvests of 1915 and 1916 were the best of the century. Without the food to feed a starving nation‚ the Russian
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Why was the Tsar overthrown in February 1917? Was it the work of revolutionaries like Lenin and Trotsky? Certainly not - they were mostly either in prison or in exile. Lenin had said in 1916 that he feared he would not live to see a revolution in Russia! Was it the War? The war certainly had a serious impact on all aspects of Russian society. Defeats undermined the army‚ and economic problems alienated much of the population. Lack of food and fuel in the cruel winter of 1916-1917 certainly
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How stable was the Russian state in the period from 1906-1914? Following the Revolution of 1905‚ the stability of Russia appeared to increase‚ as policies and changes were made in order to put an end to the unrest of the Russian citizens. Although this was a good idea‚ the Tsar failed to pursue many of his promises‚ and so many aspects of Tsarist Russia remained untouched and‚ displeasingly to a large amount of people‚ very much as disappointing as before. Some change can be seen economically
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nothing about attacks by the black hundreds or the like‚ and this is also why many Jews joined the revolutionary parties. Nicholas also appointed many bad ministers‚ who actually worsened the situation‚ rather than keeping the better ministers such as Stolypin and Witte‚ who had aimed to reform Russia‚ instead dismissing them. He refused to grant political reforms such as those demanded in the 1905 revolution. His government’s failure to politically reform also led to problems. They promised reforms that
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The Family Romanov is a story about the history of the Romanov Family whose family ruled over Russia for three hundred years and what led to the fall of what they had built. The story goes into details about the family’s struggles and the people they were surrounded by. In the story it also gives you a sense of what is happening to the less fortunate peasants. Tsar Nicholas II was the richest Monarch in the world: his family wealth was once estimated at forty-five billion dollars. Forty-five billion
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