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tsar Alexander II
Tsar Alexander II, who succeeded Nicholas I in 1855, was a man of a liberal disposition, who saw no alternative but to implement change in the aftermath of the Crimean War. -
Freedom of peasants
The emancipation law of 1861 freed the peasants from dependence on the landowners and granted them all the land, previously worked by the peasants for their own use. -
Self government in russia
In 1864 most local government in the European part of Russia was organized into provincial and district elected self-government (zemstvos), which were made up of representatives of all classes and were responsible for local schools, public health, roads, prisons, food supply, and other concerns. -
Russia start State Bank
In the financial sphere, Russia established the State Bank in 1866, which put the national currency on a firmer footing -
Elected city Councils.
1870 elected city councils, or duma, were formed. Dominated by property owners and constrained by provincial governors and the police, the zemstva and duma raised taxes and levied labor to support their activities -
Army reform
The reform of the military service (1874) was the last of the principal reforms in Alexander's II reign. The Franco-Prussian War demonstrated the necessity of building a modern army. -
taking th eburden off of people
The new conscription system, which provided for a short term of active service followed by several years in the reserve, was introduced by Dmitry Milyutin in 1874 -
labour laws introduced
Labour legislation was first introduced in 1882 with the creation of the inspectorate of factories (in charge of health and life saving regulations), the regulation of working hours and the limitation of female and juvenile labor -
peasants get a Land Bank
The ministry also founded the Peasant Land Bank in 1882 to enable enterprising farmers to acquire more land. -
Alexander Railway Building
Tsar alexander also continued a policy of intensive railway building. Here the greatest event was the laying down of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1891. -
Alexander finacial Reform
Alexander's financial reforms prepared the way for the introduction of gold standard, which was carried out in the first years of his successor's reign (1897). -
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks formed the minority of the Socialist Democrat Party when they split in 1903 -
Revolution
Led by a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Gapon, 150,000 people took to the cold and snow covered streets of St Petersburg to protest about their lifestyle. -
Peter Stolypin
Peter Stolypin was a remarkable man. All the evidence seems to point to a catastrophe within Russia at some point in the early C20th. Yet Peter Stolypin was the one man who is most associated with having the ability to save the Romanov's. His assassination in 1911 probably doomed the Romanov's to history. -
WorldWar one
World War One was to have a devastating impact on Russia. When World War One started in August 1914, Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. -
Russia in disaster
Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. The growing influence of Gregory Rasputin over the Romanov’s did a great deal to damage the royal family and by the end of the spring of 1917, the Romanovs, who had ruled Russia for just over 300 years, were no longer in charge of a Russia that had been taken over by Kerensky and the Provisional Government. By the end of 1917. led by Lenin had taken power in -
Russia become communism
Russia by 1918 appeared to be in the hands of the communists (the Bolshevik Party) led by Lenin. The Provisional Government had been overthrown and the Bolsheviks had appeared to have gained power in Russia and that the country’s problems seemed to be over. In fact, those problems had only just begun. -
Stalin comes to power
Joseph Stalin, like Hitler, was very protective about his early years. Stalin used the might and fear of the NKVD (secret police) to ensure that no one ever questioned his past – or those who were brave enough to even hint that they might be interested were suitably warned off -
Agricultural lose
1928-1935 agricure decreases while stalin is underpower -
The power of Stalin
Stalin's control over Russia meant that freedom was the one thing that people lost. The people of Russia had to read what the state allowed, see what the state allowed and listen to what the state allowed. The state’s control of the media was total. Those who attempted to listen, read etc. anything else were severely punished. Everybody knew of the labour camps and that was enough of a deterren
