Red – Hard questions and haven’t come up before‚ Yellow – Very unlikely questions OCR B: Russia in Turmoil‚ 1900-1924 - All Possible Essays Questions with Plans (By Harry Bojakowski and Scarlett Stock [04.2013]) 1. 1905 1. Why did Tsarism become so unpopular with some groups by 1905? Throughout the centuries leading up to the 20 ‚ Russia had been ruled by the Romanov dynasty via autocracy. This lead to large periods of stagnation and extremely old-fashioned ways while the rest of European
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Russia possible essay questions: Collapse Reform and reaction‚ 1855–1881 Why did Alexander II order the emancipation of the serfs in 1861? (12 marks) Crimean War defeat His own beliefs Political considerations Why did defeat in the Crimean War lead to reform under Alexander II? (12 marks) Inadequate army training suggested Russia was not an “elite state” Social unrest caused by the defeat Pressure from intellectuals Explain why Alexander II introduced further reforms following the Emancipation
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OPPONENT-PROCESS THEORY Opponent-process theory is a psychological and neurological model that accounts for a wide range of behaviors‚ including color vision. Simply it says “All colors are combinations of responses in three underlying bipolar systems (Red/Green‚ Blue/Yellow‚ and Black/White)”. This model was first proposed in 1878 by Ewald Hering‚ a German physiologist‚ and later expanded by Richard Solomon‚ a 20th-century psychologist. Introduction The color opponent process is a color theory that
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III had not prepared him for the Tsardom of Russia; he was in no way ready to rule. Once in charge‚ Nicholas met Alexandra Feodorovna (Princess Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix of Hesse and by Rhine) and in 1894 the two were married at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace. Even though Nicholas II was hardworking‚ he was an introverted‚ deeply religious‚ and solitary man; during his reign he had many downfalls that led to him being the last Tsar of Russia. Nicholas’s bad decisions‚ incompetent advisors
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How effectively did Nicholas II deal with the problems facing Russia in the period 1894 – 1905? It is one of the ironies of Russian history that‚ at a time when the nation most needed a tsar of strength and imagination‚ it was a man of weakness and limited outlook who came to the throne. Nicholas II was the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. When he succeeded his father in 1894‚ he had very little experience of government. There are two main aspects to Nicholas’ II’s reign; firstly the problems he
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To what extent was the Tsarist economy transformed between 1881 – 1905? The torpor of the Russian economy compared to other European Great Powers was a prominent predicament to both Alexander III and Nicholas II. In order to sustain Russia’s Great Power status‚ both Tsars engaged in a policy of economic renewal between the years 1881 and 1095. Despite success in managing to proliferate economic growth rates‚ the attempts of economic reform between 1881 and 1905 weren’t sufficient in order to make
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By 1905‚ a revolution was immanent‚ Tsar’s power was to be challenged and the reasons for this are to be laid out here in this essay. Was the Tsar’s non-reformist attitude solely to blame or was the nature of Tsardom destined to destroy itself? We need to look at the foundations of the revolution in order to fully understand this and make an informed response to these questions. The foundations are laid out into five main parts‚ including short and long-term factors. The two main long-term factors
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To What Extent was the Tsar the Cause of the Fall of Tsarist Russia in February 1917 1917 was a year of infinite importance for Russia‚ as their country would never be ruled in the same way again. Countless strikes‚ demonstrations and rebellions were constantly being put down through the use of force‚ and the unsettlement throughout the citizens was stirring‚ becoming more and more of a threat to the autocratic rule. Although‚ a great deal of the blame for the revolution was put on the Tsar‚ there
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The Russia -Japanese war was a key reason into why revolution broke out in 1905 Plehve was reputed to have said that a “short victorious war to avert a revolution” Russia lost several battles producing an amount of 107‚000 Russian troops lost. Also the Russian Baltic Fleet‚ which had sailed half-way round the world to assist their failing army‚ was completely destroyed by Japanese Ships as it entered the Straits of Tsushima. By this time the Japanese were exhausted and the Russians were almost
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I think that Russia was unrecognisable in 1894 compared to what it was in 1881 when it was inherited by Alexander III. Alexander III had changed many things from when he came into power and still remained when he had died in 1894. One thing that had changed in Russia from when Alexander had come into power in 1881 was that there was increased repression regarding politics. The Statue of State Security was introduced which brought government-controlled courts into the country and could now put
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