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Imperial Russia From 1895 to 1918. - Coggle Diagram
Imperial Russia From 1895 to 1918.
Russian social structure
The church
The Army
Russia by the late 19th centry had the largest Army in the world
However the army was not well traned
The Army had olso just began to modernise.
The nobilty
The peasents
They were known as the dark masses and made up about 82% of Russias population by 1894
The Tsar
the Romanov family had ruled Russia since 1613
The Tsar had fall power over evrything as an autocrat
the 1905 Revolution
The Russo-Japanses war
Russia had gone to war with Japan in 1904 over Port Arthur in the far east and parts of Greater manturia.
Russia thought that Japain was a weak eastern nation that was not mach for a European power however Japan was far more modernsied then Russia and the whole afar was a brutal humilation of the Russian forces.
Famine in the country sides
poor working condtions for the working masses
Due to the rapid growth in Russias econime and Industry many peasents had moved to from the country side to the citys.
However condtions were poor and work ours were long with a huge amount of exploation.
Bloody sunday
A crowed of peasents and workers lead by a priest by the name of Farther Gapon were gunned down by Russian troops while trying to deliver peacfuly a patition asking for refrom to the Tsar.
This action lead to what is widly seen as the starting point of the 1905 revoultion.
Post revoltion refroms
The October maifesto
Was brought in to help aappease the liberal middle classes.
Brought in the Dumas which was ment to be like a parliment.
This was Russias consitiution
Peter Stolypin
Brought in number of Agricultral refroms
One of these being the 'wager on the strong' which tried to get peasent farmers to abandon the more ineffeicient from of strip farming and prlace it with more western ways for Farming.
He set up land banks when Peasents can reseave land from in order to become modern farmers.
By 1914 10% to 16% of farms were independantly owned operated like western style farms. Although this ment that strip farming was still dominent in Russia it dose show a change.
assasinated 1911
Pre-Revolutionaly refroms
Sirge Witte
The great spurt
Huge expantion of the Russian rail network.
As seen with the creation of the Trans-sibiran railway between 1891 and 1916.
He put alot of his inestment and enthusiasm into the Russian Rail network as he belived that a extensive rail network would help to grow and strengthen the Russain Econime.
Russia by 1913 had become the fastest growing country in Europe.
Did little in terms of Agricultral refrom
was not well liked by the Tsar
Russia unlike other countires in Europe had not been able to exploit the resources it had at it's desposal.
Ukraine had large oil felds and extreamly fertile land.
Russia had huge coal reserves and gold reserves in some of it's regons.
Oposition to the Tsars rule
The popularists
The octoberists/ liberal refromers
Wanted to see Russia become like a western constiutional monarchy.
Wanted everone to be given the right to vote.
For a constiution to be put in place.
Social revolutionarys (would later split into two factions in 1902)
Bolshaviks (means the majority in Russian) lead by Lenin
The menshaviks (means the minority in Russia) Lead by Julius Martov
WW1 and the revolutions of 1917
October revoution
The Revoultion was lead by Lenin and the bolshaviks.
The July day's.
The february revoultion
The Tsar abdidcated on the 17th of March 1917
at the start of the war in 1914 there was a huge wave of patratizm in Russia
Russia experanced huge losses against the German Army.
The Russian rail network collapsed and food and Arms could not get to the citys and the frontlines
The provisional goverment.
This Goverment had been fromed as a result of the abdication of Tsar in 1917 and was faced with a number of problems.
The was the issue with food
WW1
The provisional goverment had decided to stay in the war as the Goverment was relying in money comming from Britain and France to stay in the war effeort.
This however was not a good idea due to the fact that many Russian wanted to the war to end as not only had they lost alot of land to the German forces but also due to the fact that the war had lead tp the collapes of Russia supply chains as well.
One was the iusse of land
It was not realy seens as a legitemnt giverment due to the fact that it was not an elected body
The provisional goverment had to rely on the newly fromed Soviets one of the first being the Petrograd soviet.
At forst the realtionship between the two bodys were cordal and they had worked together on a number of iusses.
The Soviets theselfs were mostly controld by the Menshaviks and social refromers.
This was one of the main reasons why they had to realy on the Soviets when passing legisation and fuctioning the giverment.
The Dumas
There were four dumas between 1906 and 1914
Second Duma between Febuary-June 1907
Known as the Duma of the peoples rath.
The Third Duma between November 1907 to June of 1912.
First Duma was between April and June of 1906
The Fourth Duma between Novemeber 1912 and August 1914
The powers of the Duma were waltered down by the Tsar not long after the octeber manifesto as he had given himself the powere to veto and leggisation that he did not like.