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Russian Rev
Russian Absolutism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Boyars | Landowning nobles |
| Czar | Russian word for Caesar, highest |
| Ivan the Terrible | Took over with very strong laws, enforces laws for murder, destruction, even killed his own son |
| Autocratic | Ruler with complete authority |
| Peter the great | Spent time learning the arts, impressed with England parliament |
| Peter the Great's reform: social | No beard, clothes instead of robes, mix public, dancing |
| Peter the Great's reform: economics | Improved trading, won land (Sweden), migration into Alaska |
| Peter the Great's reform St. Peters-burg | Capital, many people died, west architecture |
| Catherine the Great | Continued westernization, french culture, firm action, black sea (warm water port) |
| Capitalism | Economic system in which means of production are privately owned & operated |
| Socialism | System in which the people as a whole rather then private individuals own property and operate all business |
| Communism | Is a form of socialism which struggles was inevitable |
| Karl Marx | German Philosopher, proposed communism |
| Key points of Marx communist manifesto | Have-nots: working class, rebellion, established a classes, communist society |