Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russia 1881 - 1953
- How it was ruled.
- Loris-Melikov
- Belonged to the top
aristocratic society
of Georgia.
- Had reform plans.
- Michael II, Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov
- Killed by Bolshevik functionaries to
end the Romanovs
- Vladamir Lenin
- A Russian communist revolutionary
- Played a senior
role in the October
Revolution in 1917
- The leader of the
Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist
Republic
- Joseph Stalin
- Obtained power following the death
of Vladimir Lenin
- Tsarism
- A title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or
supreme rulers.
- This vast,
diverse Empire
was ruled by a
series of Tsars.
- The Tsar, and
only the Tsar,
governed
Russia
- Freedom of speech was
strictly censored
- All books and newspapers in Russia
were censored so that people would
not be influenced by liberal or socialist
ideas.
- Towards the end a short-lived revolution caused the Tsar to lose
control of large areas of Russia. Although the revolution failed, it
served as a serious warning of what might happen in the future.
- Geography
- Russia is a very
large country
- It includes different
climates as part of
Russia is in the arctic
circle.
- Could make it difficult to rule.
- Different continents.
- Meaning different ethnicities.
- Has lost smaller parts of
its empire
- Like Latvia and Estonia.
- People
- Different
ethnicities e.g
- Russian
- Tatar
- Ukranian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Different types of people
- Peasants
- Landed and landless farmers
- Working Class
- Workers, artisans, soldiers, sailors
- Middle Class
- Merchants, bureaucrats, professionals.
- Upper Class
- Royalty, nobility, higher clergy
- Divided in similar ways.
- Upper class middle class etc.
- Society
- Late 19th century
- Strongly hierarchical
- Russia’s social
structure was often
depicted and
lampooned in visual
propaganda.
- Problems
- Russia was slipping behind European production levels
- Russia had serious political problems.
- "The bureaucracy was meant to have been an area of major reform, however now it was posing a social and
slight political problem. "
- People in civil service were looking out for
themselves and had no interest in helping
the Tsar
- "The absence of an effective banking system meant Russia
was unable to raise a large amount of capital to fund
entrepreneurs."
- By Michael
Dicken