How successful were Alexander reforms in transforming Russian Society by 1881? 24 marks Alexander came to power in 1855‚ but before he became Tsar Alexander witnessed the shameful defeat against Britain‚ France and Turkey in the Crimean War in 1854 This had given him the opportunity to observe some of the problems which Russia faced; Alexander believed that changes had to be made towards modernisation. The population of the Russian Empire was 74 million
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In April 1917‚ a month after the Romanov Dynasty in Russia effectively ended with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II‚ Vladimir Ilich Lenin returned to Russia from exile with a formidable revolutionary mentality. The Tsar’s abdication prompted a period of dual power between select members of the defunct fourth Duma‚ now termed the Provisional Government‚ and the newly formed Petrograd Soviet. This arrangement offered a sense of political stability‚ a stability that was detrimental to Lenin’s quest
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IDS 301 Media Culture Jolita V Reaction paper 12 October‚ 2012 Media hypocrisy There is no doubt that the media is the primary source of information that in fact nowadays overloads the average person with various data on a daily basis .The media has been always a tool of spreading the news‚ no matter good or bad‚ in the shortest possible time to the general public. Even nowadays with the revolutionary development and expansion of the technology the media has become extremely influential
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determine its agreeability to a particular individual or group. On the contrary‚ its corruptibility determines how likely it is to adhere to those values in the real world‚ when subjects to rigor of human nature. Among the forms of governments‚ Autocracy is generally seen as the black sheep. The most common argument against dictatorship is it endues an individual with supreme power. As Sir John Dalberg Action famously stated‚ “Power tends to corrupt‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. However
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it true to say that Russia was as successful in trying to develop before the start of the 20th century or were they still considered a backward country by that time? Prior to and during the period 1850 - 1900‚ Russia was controlled by a Tsarist autocracy where all power and wealth was controlled by the Tsar‚ and in 1855 Tsar Alexander II succeeded Nicholas I and started to initiate many monumental reforms in various areas. Though a conservative‚ Alexander II saw the need for change – a fact that
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To what extent was the Revolution of February/March 1917‚ in Russia‚ due to the nature of Tsarism and the policies of Nicholas II (1894-1917)? The February/March Revolution of 1917 was predominantly caused by the nature of Tsarism and the policies of Nicholas II. The Romanov dynasty had reigned for several centuries as an absolute monarch‚ with the Tsar being the supreme autocratic ruler. It had created a dramatic division in Russian society‚ and when Nicholas II came to power‚ no ruler was so
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The major issues of social‚ economical and political instability combined with the class contradictions and the lost hope to be the winning power in WW1 is what triggered the February Revolution. The hungry and dissatisfied mobs of people domiciled in an Empire which was suffering from backwardness in several aspects came out to illustrate their discontent on the streets of Petrograd. Before this escalated and a large number of citizens joined the movement - one could argue that the consequences
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unwillingness to embrace modernisation. Enciting events such as the Bloody Sunday Massacre‚ and the Lena Goldfields massacre. World War One did however‚ provide an environment that herald the eventual death of the Tsarist Regime. The Tsarist 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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How far do you agree that the most important cause of the February 1917 revolution was the Great War? The February Revolution of 1917 brought the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty to an end. I believe that the immediate cause of the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the Tsarist regime under the gigantic strain of World War I. The underlying cause was the backward economic condition of the country‚ which made it unable to sustain the war effort against powerful‚ industrialized Germany. All
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ability of a country to compete with other nations. The five year plan system allowed for the industrialization of the former Soviet Union. Success of this magnitude can be shown in the collectivization of farms which fueled the work force. The autocracy of Russia’s past is now gone and communism is in its place. The Bolshevik party which gained control of Russia was of the Marxist party. The leaders of the then Soviet Union used these beliefs to rule the nation. One leader in particular had an interesting
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