different attitudes towards the government at the time. Attitudes varied from moderate to ones of a violent and extreme nature. Without the range of varying attitudes towards the tsarist system‚ there would have been no opposition facing the state. The 1905 revolution was very significant. Opposition towards the tsarist system dated back decades; however people in Russia were getting noticeably more and more dissatisfied with their lives and the way their country was run‚ as Russia started to modernise
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“The authority of the Tsarist State was never seriously challenged in the years before 1905.” How valid is this view. ! ! ! In the years before 1905‚ Russia had been under complete control of the Tsars for more than 300 years. Tsarist Russia was an autocrat‚ it made a very tough time for the people. The Tsar had supreme power over the country and there were no oppositions that could challenge him. However‚ not all people were feeling content of how the Tsar ruled over Russia‚ therefore‚ this caused
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To what extent do you consider that the First World War was a key turning point in the development of modern Russia in the years 1856-1964? In 1964 Russia was seen as a leading superpower which dominated Eastern Europe. However this is a vastly different image than the inherently backward country that Russia was deemed to be one hundred years earlier. The most crucial turning point in the modernisation of Russia was the abdication of the Tsar in 1917 and the rise of the Bolshevik party which followed
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under Tsar Nicholas II and Lenin? Fundamentally‚ terror and associated organisations were used a form to gain and maintain control in both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes. These groups were crucial to ensuring that political and social unrest was kept to a minimum level. The formation of the tsarist Okhrana in 1880 was a vital component in continuing the Tsarist regime in the height of its decline in popularity from 1912. Similarly the Cheka used by Lenin‚ created in 1917‚ was also used to eliminate
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If the Tsarist state had collapsed‚ as in 1917‚ the revolution would have inevitably been successful. A revolution means to forcibly overthrow a government. In February 1905‚ 400‚000 workers went on strike due to the response of the bloody Sunday; the strikes were organized by the unhappy workers and were not organized by the revolutionaries. The most significant reason for the fail of the 1905 revolution was the armed forces hadn’t yet become sufficiently disillusioned by the Tsarist regime in
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been a target‚ for just over one hundred years of a convoluted process of social engineering directed by the Russian state.” Thus this emigration was evoked by both economic hardships and anti-Jewish violence that occurred in other parts of the tsarist Russia. Even if in Lithuania pogroms were few‚ Lithuanian Jews were still afraid of possible forthcoming violence. Therefore‚ it is not surprising that this emigration differed from the displacement of other ethnic groups‚ where usually young men
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Answers (4) Well the Germans deliberately sent Lenin back to Russia in the hopes that he would foment revolution so it was definitely a catalyst in that sense. Of course after a long and costly war there were plenty of Russians dissatisfied with the Tsarist government. Of course the communists deluded them into thinking they could create some sort of workers paradise. What they ended up with was something with a lot more faults than the Sign In Ask a Question Answers Home Notifications My Activities
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the individual (Evgenii). The poem is a classic piece of Romantic era literature‚ swirled in enlightenment ideology of the post 19th century Tsarist period. However‚ it’s the political element that gives this poem its true backbone. The research provided will attempt to draw parallels between Pushkin and his characters‚ along with notable authors of the Tsarist period‚ in order to display the underlying political implications of the Russian Golden Age. The introduction of The Bronze Horseman is narrated
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Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in 1917? In this essay I will analyse a combination of reasons on how the Bolsheviks came to power and discuss events such as the February and October revolutions‚ the fall of the Tsarist rule and the Provisional government. In 1900 Russia was a great empire ruled by the Tsar Nicholas II. He was an autocrat‚ this meant there was no parliament to limit his power alongside his own secret police; the okhrana‚ they would censor all books and newspapers. During
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the 8th century A.D. since then‚ the whole of Central Asian (except northern part of Kazakhstan) and Caucus regions were under Muslim rule. Over time‚ most of the local populations of these regions embraced Islam. However‚ with the advance of the Tsarist Russian forces into Muslim land in Central Asia in the 19th century A.D.‚ it was becoming apparent to the Muslims of this region that they were facing a new challenge of immense proportion‚ particularly at the cultural‚ educational‚ social and economic
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