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The Great Northern War
The Great (second) Northern War was a military conflict in which Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland challenged the supremacy of Sweden in the Baltic area. The war resulted in the decline of Swedish influence and the emergence of Russia as a major power in that region. -
The Decembrist Revolt
Decembrists were primarily members of the upper classes who had military backgrounds. The Northern Society took advantage of them after Nicholas I death. They convinced the troops to refuse to take loyalty oath to Nicholas I. The Colonel Prince Sergey Trubetskoy, was smart and fled the group immediately. A trial then begn of 289 Decembrists.The execution of 5 of them, the imprisonment of 31, and the banishment of the rest to Siberia. -
Decembrist Revolt
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Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
(continued) land from the landlords. Household serfs were the worst affected as they gained only their freedom and no land. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the household serfs. By this edict more than 23 million people received their liberty. Serfs were granted the full rights of free citizens, gaining the rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property and to own a business. The Manifesto prescribed that peasants would be able to buy the land from the landlords. Household serfs were the worst affected as they gained only -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
In 1855 Czar Nicholas I was succeeded by Alexander II. Alexander introduced a new series of reforms. The most important of these was the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 was giving liberty to tens of millions of people. -
The assasination of Alexander II
A revolution that had been brewing since1825 developed rapidly. In 1881 Alexander II was assassinated by a bomb hurled at his carriage. His murder set off waves of violence. Majprity was directed at the Jewish population of the empire. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict between two empires the rising Japanese Empire and the declining Russian Empire. Their plans for the future of Asia (Manchuria and Korea in particular). Russian failure to withdraw from Manchuria and Russian penetration into northern Korea was countered by Japanese attempts to negotiate a division of the area into spheres of influence. The Russian government, however, was inflexible, and it was willing to risk an armed conflict in the belief that Japan was -
The Russo-Japanese War
(continued) conflict in the belief that Japan was bound to be defeated and that a Russian victory would head off the growing threat of internal revolution in Russia. -
Bloody Sunday
(continued) several hundred wounded. This Bloody Sunday led to other strikes in other cities, and peasant uprising. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was a massacre in St. Petersburg Russia. Nicholas the second, ordered a large group of workers to peacefully carry religious icons, pictures of Nicholas, and petitions citing their grievances and desired reforms. He led them to the city where they came face to face with the police. Grand Duke Vladimir (Nicholas' Uncle and chief of security police) ordered the men to shoot because the crowd didn't listen to his orders to stop marching. There were more than 100 people kiled and -
The Revolution of 1905
The Russian Revolution occured in 1905. It was an uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 diverse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the Russian social and political system. Their protests ranged from liberal rhetoric to strikes and included student riots and terrorist assassinations. -
World War I (Russia Involvement)
Russia fell hard during Worl War I, setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Food shortages led to citizen revolt. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Nicholas was a relatively weak and ineffectual leader, which did not help his rule. He ssought to preserve over a people desperate for change. Nicholas led his country into several costly wars. The soldiers food and weaponry was becoming near extinct. The February Revolution army garrison at Petrograd joined fierce workers in demanding socialist reforms which forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate. -
The March Revolution
The Emperor was forced to abdicate and then was replaced by the government during the first revolution.
