Russian Populism: Alexander II's Great Reforms

1. Russian Populism
The Populist movement resulted from Alexander II’s Great Reforms. The purpose of the reforms was to take Russia into the future.
2. Lenin’s Imperialism: the Highest State of Capitalism describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits

3. People’s Will (Narodnaia Volia) a newspaper published by the People’s Will revolutionary populist organization

4. Hapsburg
Area located in russia

5. Georgi Plekhanov a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician

6. Iosif V. Djugashvili
Joseph Stalin

7. Russian Social Democratic Workers Party was a revolutionary
Autocracy a system of government in which a supreme political power is concentrated in the hands of one person

55. Ivan III(the Great) and Ivan IV(the Terrible) a Grand Prince of Moscow, was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death

56. Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire

57. Catherine the Great longest-ruling female leader of Russia

58. Serfdom the status of peasants under feudalism

59. Westernizers (zapadniki) group of 19th century intellectuals who believed that Russia's development depended upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government

60. Crimean War 1853-55 a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

61. Alexander II
Emperor of Russia from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the King of Poland and the Grand Prince of Finland.

62. Mir a self-governing community of peasant households that elected its own officials and controlled local forests, fisheries, hunting grounds

63. Zemstvo self-government in the Russian Empire and Ukraine

I. Five essay options from which three will be on the
Russia's belated industrialization from the 1890s exacerbated many of the economic and social changes that resulted from its attempt at modernization since 1861. Analyze Russia's lagging modernization as it disrupted the traditional order and the incapacity of political institutions to respond to these changes.

3. Suppose in 19ll, in place of the assassinated Stolypin, you were appointed prime minister of Russia by Nicholas II. What advice and direction would you give the Tsar and what policies would you pursue? In your answer mention court politics, the transformation of the imperial system, the economic and social condition of Russia, foreign policy, the treatment of revolutionaries, etc. Be as specific as you can in your answer. Remember that your foreknowledge of coming events does not exist, but your recommendations may be based on trends up to 1911.

4. Would you agree with Massie that the Tsarevich's hemophilia along with Alexandra's involvement with it caused the downfall of the Romanov dynasty? Or would you agree with some historians like Dziewanowski that the political, social and economic trends at the end of the nineteenth century portended that some cataclysmic change was likely. If you defend one position, also argue against the other. Support your position with concrete