in the Crimean War‚ Alexander II saw the need to usher his country into the modern world through drastic measures‚ thus leading to his great reforms. The most significance changes were made between the years 1861-1871‚ in particularly‚ the social‚ political and military aspect of Tsarist Russia. The reforms implemented by the Tsar can be seen as Russia striving to emerge as a superpower amongst the West. There is historical controversy as the sources suggest that Alexander II used the reforms to
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The Emancipation Edict of 1861 The condition of the Russian peasant The most noticeable feature of 19th century Russian society was the high proportion of the population‚ around 80 per cent‚ who were peasants. In 1850 almost half of these peasants were serfs‚ peasants tied to the land they worked. They worked on the land given to them and in return for the use of this land they were required to work also for the noble landowner. Three days in the week was the average requirement but in the worse
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large-scale violence several years later-end slavery. With slavery abolished by order of the government-true‚ a government pushed hard to do so‚ by blacks‚ free and slave‚ and by white abolitionists-its end could be orchestrated so as to set limits to emancipation. Liberation from the top would go only so far as the interests of the dominant groups permitted. If carried further by the momentum of war‚ the rhetoric of a crusade‚ it could be pulled back to a safer position. Thus‚ while the ending of slavery
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Alexander III‚ Tsar of Russia‚ 1881-1889 Alexander III of Russia was born on 26th February 1845. Clumsy and gruff as a child‚ he grew up to be a man of great physical strength. Everything about him suggested imperial power. He was six feet four inches tall‚ broad and very strong. Stories circulated about Tsar Alexander bending (and then restraightening) iron fire pokers‚ crushing silver roubles in his fingers‚ and tearing packs of cards in half for the entertainment of his children‚ and about
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Alexander II was the first to create social reforms after he ascended into power in 1855 during the Crimean War. Russia at the time was resistant to any form of change and the defeat of the War proved that they were completely backwards in society; with this fear Alexander II created a series of reforms in order to have a revolutionary change in Russia. The first reform was the Emancipation in 1861 which entailed of freeing the serfs. The serfs were released from bondage and became free men who were
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may seem like serfs didn’t do much in the Middle Ages‚ they were actually the ones who kept both knights and nobles alive. The serfs were just like peasants‚ except for the fact that they served under a lord. The serfs would farm their lord’s land - one strip of the field’s crops were for themselves and their family‚ while the rest of the field and their crops belonged to the lord. In exchange‚ the lord would protect his serfs from robbery and any other kinds of harm. The serfs lived a tough
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Alexander II became Tsar of the Russian Empire in 1855 following his late father Nicholas I. By the time of Nicholas’ death‚ Russia was in desperate need of change‚ as Russians’ way of life “differed very little from what it had been at the end of the fifteenth [century]” (Lincoln‚ 1990). Alexander was conscious of Russia’s situation and knew he needed to take action as soon as possible. But he was also firmly dedicated to maintaining the autocracy and his position as Tsar‚ a notion that was installed
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The Comparison of who better deserves the title of “The Great” Phillip II or Alexander Ashlee Rioux HIST 101 Dr. Paul Baxa 12/9/2013 Intro: The common definition for the term “great” consists of being considerably above average or above normal. Normal can mean different things to different cultures and societies. For example‚ in the early years‚ having kings‚ the power to rule‚ and killing several thousands to accomplish this was normal to some‚ as
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Kropotkin wrote a great essay called “Emancipating the Serfs (1861). In that essay he gave great statistics about emancipation‚ he said that around 30 million of serfs received their freedom and around 90 million acres of land were distributed among the serfs. However‚ even though these numbers favor serfs‚ it doesn’t mean that it actually favors them. Peasants were still under obligation to their landowners‚ they were forced to pay rent for their land after two-year initial hiatus. They had to keep
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This essay will discuss three Russian Czars‚ Nicholas I‚ Alexander II‚ and Alexander III and the impact they had on the Jews. The different levels of tolerance of these Czars to the Jews greatly influenced the quality of Jewish life at the time. Czar Nicholas I ruled Russia from 1825 to 1855‚ he came power after his predecessor Czar Alexander I died childless (“Nicholas I”). Although the Jews were in Russia willingly‚ Czar Nicholas
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