Paschalis Kitsikopoulos _TO WHAT EXTENT DID ALEXANDER II SUCCEED IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO MODERNIZE RUSSIA?_ In 1855‚ European countries had to deal with many difficulties. By that time‚ a major imbalance was existing in and between all countries. A detonation of economy and technology was disturbing even the biggest nations of Europe. All countries were intimidated by the greatest power of the time‚ Japan and India. Russia was an enormous country‚ however‚ it wasn’t very advanced as far as the technology
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territory. At the point when Alexander II took the crown of Russia in 1855 he acquired a potential emergency that debilitated to fall the Russian Empire. Issues all through the Empire extending from parts of Finland to Poland‚ and also Crimea and numerous innate clashes extended the Russian economy to the edge of fall. Russia realized that inside a couple of months an aggregate thrashing in the Crimean War was up and coming and that would mean the total embarrassment of Russia on a worldwide scale. Peace
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defeat in the Crimean war was arguably the main reason why Alexander II made a series of reforms when he came into power. The devastating loss of the war proved the backwardness of Russia in relation to other powers and even though peasant unrest and the criticisms of serfdom were partially responsible for influencing Alexander II‚ the decision to make changes primarily came from the loss of the Crimean war. The Crimean war was fought by Russia and an alliance of Britain‚ France‚ Prussia‚ Austria and
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illness in the first stages‚ the same way it was not apparent that Russia had been economically and industrially “sick” until the defeat in the Crimean War. The most significant reform to remedy Russian backwardness was the Emancipation Edict‚ followed by a number of jurisdictional‚ educational and military reforms. The essay focuses on emancipation‚ as it was the most radical change‚ representative for the trends and problems in Russia. It discusses the causes why such promising reform proved to be
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How far did the defeat in the Crimean War contribute to Alexander II as a reformer? (24 marks) Alexander II had come to the throne in 1855‚ during the closing days of the Crimean war. The war had gone badly for Russia‚ and this set the tone of Alexander’s reign‚ but was it just the Crimean war which started the chain of reform? Or was it already existing pressures? The Crimean war had highlighted the inadequacies in the Russian military. An example of this would be the lack of war materiel‚ such
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contrast the domestic policies of Alexander II and Alexander III Alexander II and his successor and son‚ Alexander III‚ inherited Russia in different states and degrees of turmoil. Due to these pressures‚ both were required to make alterations to the systems in place‚ such as that of politics and economics. However the natures of their crisis were different and therefore the subsequent modifications varied and were‚ in many cases‚ controversial. Alexander II came to power in 1855 and had to
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Divisions of opposing groups of the Tsar were important to the survival of Tsarist Russia. However‚ other factors such as the church‚ the belief of the divine right‚ the army and the Okhrana were also effective in keeping the Tsar in a state of power. Firstly‚ the opposition groups of the Tsar were known as the Populists‚ the Liberals and the Marxists. Each group had its own ideas on what was needed for Russia and each group wanted change‚ however‚ there were many problems within the groups and
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within Russian history. It drastically altered Russia’s economic‚ political and social stipulation. One could propose the argument that this event lead to the fall of communism in 1990‚ further more suggesting the extent to which this event affected Russia. Hence this is ‘perhaps the most defining moment in Russian history‚ with its impact being seen many years after the event itself’. Although historians identify short term effects of this event‚ the significance to which this event developed Russian
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autocracy inflicted its brutality upon the Russian people from the time of Ivan III (Oxley‚ 2001) until the death of Tsar Nicholas II‚ a span of 455 years (Why
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Discuss the economic‚ social and political grievances in Russia at the turn of the C20th and their contribution to the downfall of the Romanov Dynasty. Nicholas II‚ the last tsar of Russia‚ had neither the qualities nor the desire to rule imperial Russia. Born in Tsarskoye Selo in 1868‚ Nicholas was the eldest son of Alexander III‚ the fearsome tsar who had reimposed autocracy and oppression on the Russian empire after the murder of Alexander II. Those who met the young tsarevich‚ described him as pleasant
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