AICE Euro - Russian Revolution

Tsar Nicholas II

Russia's autocrat 1894-1917 with unlimited power who opposed reforms

Russia’s ruler from 1894-1917

Tsar Nicholas II

Tsarist regime

A form of absolute, autocratic monarchy

Russification

A policy of enforcing Russian language and Orthodox Christianity throughout the land

Emancipation of the serfs, 1861

Abolished feudal servitude for more than 23 million Russian peasants

Pogroms

An organized, violent riot designed to massacre or expel a specific ethnic or religious group

The two most advanced industrial countries in Europe in 1900

Germany and Britain

The resource that Russia exported

Wheat

Sergei Witte

a Russian statesman who supported reforms needed for industrialization

Minister of finance 1892-1903

Sergei Witte

Positive results of Witte's reforms

Growth in industry and railway networks

Negative results of Witte's reforms

An increase in national debt and a decline in the standard of living for many

The German socialist who influenced the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Karl Marx

Socialist Revolutionaries

A radical political group that aimed to redistribute the wealth among peasants

Lenin's group of the Social Democrats

Bolshevik

Martov's group of the Social Democrats

Mensheviks

The nation that won the Russo-Japanese War

Japan

The main internal consequences of the Russo-Japanese War

Blowing the prestige of the tsarist government and being a cause of the 1905 Revolution