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Question | Answer |
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catherine the great | expanded russian territory; introduced enlightenment ideas; crushed revolts and took back reforms |
alexander I | stopped french advance to russia; holy alliance; romanticism; culture reflected western ideas |
nicholas I | decembrist uprising; crushed revolts; expanded into ottoman territory; no industry; more labor for serfs |
alexander II | emancipation edict; mir; cut back on punishments; trials were open to public; military improved; education spread; women's status improved; industry was state sponsored; led to revolts |
alexander III | opposed reforms; intensified secret police; russification; repressed poles and jews |
nicholas II | revolution of 1905; october manifesto; stolypin reforms |
decembrist uprising | revolt of western oriented army officers against the czar |
emancipation edict | document that freed the Russian serfs |
kulaks | landlords who bought up more land |
pan-slavic | political ideology and unity for slavic people; russia will help slavic nations |
russification | forcing other ethnic groups to learn russian |
vladimir lenin | leader and revolutionary; marxism; formed communist party; believed could skip middle class phase |
pushkin | poet who used romantic ideas to celebrate russia |
anarchists | political groups who wanted to get rid of formal government in western; apparent in russia; killed Alexander II |
october manifesto | document that created a parliament |
duma | parliament |
crimean war | Russian attempt to gain Ottoman empire; france and britain joined ottomans; russia lost |
holy alliance | alliance of Russia, Prussia, and Austria; defended each other against liberal ideas |
tokugawa | shogunate in japan |
shogun | leader of japan; centralized feudalism; daimyos and samurais controlled most of japan |
daimyo | landlords of tokugawa japan |
samurai | warriors of tokugawa japan |
meiji restoration | japan's modernization period |
yataro | started mitsubishi |
eiichi | went from being a peasant to very wealthy by investing other's money |
zabatsu | wealthy families who controlled certain aspects of the economy |
prefects | an area administrator; similar to a mayor; replaced daimyo |
dutch studies | group of japanese scholars who brought in western technology; wanted freer trade with west; located in nagasaki |
diet | parliament set up in japan |
terakoya | school for commoners |
improved infrastructure; serfs were emancipated; meritocracy | characteristics of russian reform |
women's status improved; education spread was was scarce; trials were open to the public; parents weren't involved | social changes under alexander II |
marxism- survival of the fittest utilitarianism- western education makes people the best | karl marx vs. john stuart mill |