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Russia: Reform and Reaction.

  • Alexander I

    Alexander I
    He inherited throne in 1801. He promoted education, he even talk about freeing the sefs.
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  • Decembrist Revolt

    Decembrist Revolt
    When Alexander I died in 1825 a group of Army officers in the Imperial Russia led an uprising known as the decembrist revolt. They demanded a constitution and other reforms, It didnt work.
  • Alexander II

    Alexander II
    Alexander II came to the throne on 1855 during the crimean war. In 1861, he issued a royal decree that required emancipation of freeing. Alxander set up a system, elected assamblies called Zemstvos, were made responsible for matters such as road repair, schools and agricultare.
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  • Alexander II is killed

    Alexander II is killed
    Terrorist hurled two bombs at Alexander's carriage. One struck down several guards, the second one killed the " Czar Emancipator".
  • Alexander III

    Alexander III
    Responded to his father's assasination by reviving the harsh method's of Nicholas I, he increased the power of the secret police restored strict censorship and exiled critics to siberia. The czar also launched a program of russification aimed at suppressing the cultures of non-russian people within the empire.
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  • Nicholas II

    Nicholas II
    He entered to industrial age in 1890s, Nicholas made economic development a key goal. Loas from France helped build the Trans-siberian railway.
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  • War with Japan

    War with Japan
    War broke out between Russian and Japan in1904. Nicholas II called on his people to fight for "The Faith the Czar, and the Fatherland"

    Japan won the war.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Fearing the marches the czar had fled the palace and called in soldies. As the people approached they saw troops lined up across the squard.
  • Revolution of 1905

    Revolution of 1905
    In the monts that followed Bloody Sunday, disantent exploded across Russia. Strikes multiplied in some cities, workers took over local goverment. Then the October Manifesto came Nicholas promised " Freedom of person, conscience, speech assembly and union", After all Duma was an event where Nicholas agreed to sunmon a duma or elected National Legiskature no law, he declared would go into effect without approval by th Duma.
  • Peter Stolypin.

    Peter Stolypin.
    Nicholas then appointed a new prime minister in 1906, Peter Stolypin, arrested pogroms and execution followes as the conservation Stolypin sought to restore order, he soon realized thta Russia needed some reforms, not just repression, He introduce moderate land reform
  • Vladimir Ulyanov

    Vladimir Ulyanov
    Among the revolutinaries of 1890s was young Vlamidir, whose older brother had been executed for plotting to kill Alexander III. In 1917 he would take power in revolution that transformed Russia.