World History Chapter 15 Reaction and Nationalism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 autocracy | style of Russia's government under Czar Alexander I: one person rules with unlimited authority |
| Alexander II | Russian Czar who emancipated the serfs |
| emancipation | freeing someone |
| what Czar Alexander's emancipation of the serfs created | a new system of local government with locally elected groups called semstvos |
| The Czar Liberator | Russian Czar Alexander II |
| Russification | Czar Alexander III's policy of intolerance and persecution of non-Russian people, especially Jews |
| pogroms | organized massacres of Jewish communities |
| The Pale | where Jews in Russia were forced to live |
| Czar who made the October Manifesto | Czar Nicolas II |
| the October Manifesto | granted civil rights to Russian citizens and allowed The Duma to make real laws |
| The Duma | a Russian legislature that Czar Nicolas II thought would please his people, but it was not a true law-making power |
| Czar who turned Russia into a "pretend" constitutional monarcy | Czar Nicolas II, who never gave up his autocratic powers |
| Two groups of Russian Marxists | The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks |
| Peaceful Russian Marxists who thought Russia becoming an industrial state would lead to socialism | The Mensheviks |
| Radical Russian Marxists who thought revolutionaries should use force to create socialism | The Bolsheviks |
| leader of the Bolshevik party | Lenin |
| soviets | councils formed for Russian workers so they could speak out about what was wrong with their jobs |
| political reform | what most Russians wanted |
| what started the Russian Revolution of 1905 | angry workers seized control of major cities and went on strike (quit working) |
| what Czar Nicolas II thought would keep workers from striking | creation of The Duma, or national legislature, as an advisory council to the Czar |
| the results of the Russian Revoluiton of 1905 | The October Manifesto: civil rights for all citizens and the Duma can make laws |
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