Dossier informing the Queen of Russia’s situation in 1850: A brief potted history of Russian dynastic history over the past 1‚000 including key events and people- Year Date Event 1707 8 October Bulavin Rebellion: A small band of Don Cossacks killed a Muscovite noble searching their territory for tax fugitives. 1708 7 July Bulavin Rebellion: After a series of devastating military reversals‚ Bulavin was shot by his former followers. 18 December An imperial decree divided Muscovy into
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be this great and wonderful place because of all the booster literature. Booster literature was pamphlets or posters about the New World‚ but they told lies and made the place look a lot better than it really was. The people that came were mostly serfs and lower class people who had to sell everything they owned just to pay for the boat trip to the New World. However some people still did not have enough money to get there‚ so they went to the New World as indentured servants. Indentured servants
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The Changing Place of Slaves and Slavery in the American Nation Tomeka T. DeBruce HIS 203: American History to 1865 Prof. Corinne Barker October 15‚ 2012 The Changing Place of Slaves and Slavery in the American Nation In the beginning as early as 1502 the European slave traders shipped 11 to 16 million slaves to America. The English colonists had indentured servants instead of slaves. Indentured servants were servants that had a contract and only worked for a certain period of time. African
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Rebecca Ducharme Professor Estey World History-HIS 271 A 22 February 2012 Asian Empires of the 19th Century During the rise of European Powers‚ in the times of the Industrial Revolution‚ the Asian Empires were quickly falling behind. Each nation in the Asian Empire had a strong and rigid internal focus and due to their refusal to adapt to the changing times each empire was lead to its decline. By the start of the nineteenth century the technological gap was increasingly clear. It was not until
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Compare and 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
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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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To what extent were the aims of the 1905 Revolution achieved? To a certain extent the aims of the 1905 Revolution were achieved. Every class had grievances with the government and their main aims were political reforms‚ land reforms‚ civil liberties and industrial reforms. The October Manifesto partially addressed most of the factors concerned‚ yet a year after the mandate‚ the Fundamental Laws were passed and it made the October Manifesto redundant in many aspects. The general populace wanted
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‘Incompetent leadership was the most important reason for the outbreak of revolution in 1905’. How far do you agree? The revolution of 1905 occurred due to many different reasons. Arguably the most important of these reasons was the incompetent leadership of the Tsar‚ Nicholas II‚ but there were other factors‚ such as the poverty among the peasants‚ the frustration at lack of political power in the autocracy‚ and also the impact of the Russo-Japanese war. As mentioned‚ the most important reason
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History 10 Diploma Prep: Historical Investigation - Essay Karl Marx and his developed theory of Marxism played a vital role in influencing Lenin’s efforts to overthrow the Provisional Government eventually leading to the Russian Revolution of 1917. “A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism.”1‚ the opening sentence to The Communist
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The Problems facing Alexander III in 1881 When Alexander became Tsar‚ Russia was in crisis following the assassination of Alexander II. Supreme political authority was still in the hands of the Tsar‚ but there were immense challenges facing Alexander III as he suddenly became Tsar of the world’s largest country‚ covering a quarter of the world’s land surface. Although known as the ‘Russian’ Empire‚ it compromised a large number of ethnic groups‚ with the Russians making up only half the population
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