successes allowed the Tsar to gain support for his regime. To compare‚ there were many failures of Witte’s policies which could cause a threat to the tsarist regime. The Russian political system did not modernise and educational opportunities remained limited for the minority‚ this caused there to be an increased political opposition to the Tsarist system of government. Witte increased direct and indirect taxes in Russia‚ which helped boost the economy by squeezed the peasants causing a widespread
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[pic] A Plan of Investigation To What Extent Was Vladimir Lenin Responsible for the Downfall of the Tsarist Regime‚ and Subsequently the Provisional Government? The aim of this investigation is to determine the reasons that Vladimir “Lenin” Ulyanov was responsible for the downfall of the Tsarist Regime‚ and subsequently the provisional government in 1917. The investigation focuses on Lenin’s newspaper‚ The Pravda‚ Lenin’s eloquent speaking in St.
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nobody could have predicted what the result would have been‚ as when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated‚ there was nobody to assume the position of Tsar‚ and so 300 years of Romanov rule came to an end. Although it came as a surprise‚ the failure of the tsarist regime happened for a number of reasons. A largely significant factor was the Wars‚ and the effect they had both on the troops and the Home Front. The First World War in particular put a severe strain on not only the male agricultural labourers‚ as
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out in Russia in 1905? In 1905‚ thousands of people gathered outside the Winter Palace‚ demanding change and immediate reform. Although their revolt was ultimately unsuccessful‚ it is important to wonder why many people were disgruntled with the Tsarist regime. It can be argued that 1905 revolution resulted in both long-term and crucial short term factors: the long-term factors which will be discussed are peasant land-hunger‚ the declining economy and the exploitation of Jews. For the first factor
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workers set up a Soviets’ in the Technical Institute with Trotsky as the Chairman. The committee dominated by the intelligentsia soon gained more power than the government‚ it began coordinating with Soviets in other cities for the first time the Tsarist regime was facing united and powerful opposition. The employers began to support this opposition and paid their workers half pay. By mid-October the unrest had spread to the heart of authority‚ when officials’ employed by the treasury and ministries
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In 1894‚ at the age of 26‚ Nicholas II became Tsar of Russia as a result of his father‚ Alexander III’s‚ passing away. When he acquired the throne he cried because he wasn’t ready to be king. Spoken by Nicholas himself‚ he said‚ “I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling” (Lieven‚ 1993). However‚ ascending the throne was something that Nicholas had to do with no other choice in the matter. Before Nicholas became Tsar the people of Russia already disliked the Romanov
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Communist Russia War Communism and the New Economic Policy One-Party Dictatorship started in 1918 with Lenin’s infant Communist government were threatened with civil war. Tsarist officers had gathered troops in the south and others in anti-communist centers. Arose in Siberia and still others in the extreme north and along the Baltic coast. A political group called the (Whites) were in contrast to the communist. (Reds)‚ which combined all shades of opinion and the theory of moderate socialist to
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Assess the following statement: ‘The October Manifesto marked the formal end of autocratic government; for the first time the Tsar was forced to share his law-making powers’ The October Manifesto was a vague but insincere promise of political reform‚ issued by Tsar Nicholas II at the height of the 1905 Revolution (J. Llewellyn et al‚ “The October Manifesto).The Manifesto‚ a document proposed by Sergei Witte‚ which demanded civil liberties and the creation of a Duma‚ was an important stage in the
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After the riots of 1917‚ the Tsarist regime collapsed‚ and many would argue that it was mainly as a result of the First World War beginning in 1914. War broke out in 1914‚ with Tsar Nicholas becoming commander-in-chief in 1915‚ meaning he was away from Petrograd. Not only was this poorly thought out by Nicholas because it gave the people an opportunity to plot against him‚ but as he was away he left Tsarina (also a German princess)‚ Alexandra‚ in charge during his absence. Due to the war being
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is destroying contemporary man and that is revolution- bloody and merciless revolution”. They believed that “the sovereign has betrayed the hopes of the people”. The growth of students led to an increase of educated people who were critics of the Tsarist regime‚ this was the opposite of what Alexander II had wanted to achieve when he made university more accessible and relaxed censorship. Between the years 1861 to 1865 Alexander II made a substantial amount of liberal reforms‚ which led revolutionaries
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