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• Russification
• pogroms

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AIM Why didnt the spirit of revolution reach
Russia?

• Ms. McMillan
• Global III
• November 7, 2011

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Impact of the French Revolution

1. Russian czars worked to keep the ideals of the
   French Revolution liberty, equality, and
   fraternity from reaching the Russian people.
2. Russia changed very little throughout the 1800s.

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Political Conditions

1. Russian czars resisted reforms (change), fearing
   that they would lose control.
2. Czars refused to introduce elements of democracy,
   although it was gaining strength in the Western
   European countries.

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Social Conditions

1. A Feudal Society
2. Rigid feudal social structure
3. Nobles were powerful and resisted change
4. Middle class had no power
5. Serfdom had continued in Russia and serfs were
   bound to nobles land

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• Freeing the Serfs
• Russia got involved in the Crimean War after
  trying to seize Ottoman land and was defeated
• Russia needed to modernize and industrialize ?
  demands for change!
• In 1861, Alexander II freed the serfs
• Serfs were too poor to buy land to work, so most
  moved to the cities where they worked in industry

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Alexander II Frees the Serfs

• Who else have we learned about called himself
  The Liberator?

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• Russification
• Russia was HUGE and contained many ethnic
  minorities
• The czars tried to control these people and
  encourage feelings of Russian unity.
• The policy of Russification was an attempt to
  make all groups think, act, and believe as
  Russians
• Alexander III persecuted non-Russians (Poles,
  Ukrainians, Armenians).
• One language Russian One church Russian
  Orthodox Church.
• Jews were persecuted, only being able to work and
  live in certain places.
• These policies encouraged violent attacks on
  Jews, called pogroms.

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Imperialism in Asia

1. In the 1700s, Russia had expanded to the Baltic
   Sea, to the Black Sea, and into Eastern Europe,
   occupying much of Poland.
2. Russia expanded east across Siberia, into Alaska.
3. In the 1800s, the Russians began their practice
   of exiling convicts to Siberia.
4. Czars in the 1800s added lands in central Asia.
5. Russia had the largest and most diverse empire in
   Europe and Asia.
6. The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway,
   begun in 1890s, extended Russian economic and
   political control over the region.

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HOMEWORK

• COMPLETE STUDY CARDS 27 AND 28!