Role Of Social Structure In 20th Century Russia

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Social Structure of 20th Century
Russia
 Largest country, land is quite useless (only 5% could be used for farming)
 Russia was ruled by an autocrat who had absolute power
 Serfdom and slavery was entrenched in
Russian society
 By 1914, 125 million people lived in Russia and of these only 55700 000 were Great Russians.
What problems did this create???

Alexander I, Nicholas I and
Alexander II
• Contact with other European nations came under the reign of Alexander I during the Napoleonic War
 Nicholas I came into power when the atmosphere was hostile and he worked to strengthen the autocracy
 Crimean War (1853-56): Russia needed access to the
Mediterranean Sea and took advantage of the weak
Ottoman …show more content…
She, later, was the subject of much and gossip (Rasputin and during WW1)
 Five children: Alexei, Anastasia, Tatiana, Maria and Olga

Russo-Japanese War, 1905
 Tsar Nicholas II was concerned with expanding Russia’s empire, largest army, source of great pride-distraction from the country’s social and political problems
 Russia wanted to gain control to the ice-free port on the pacific, which was controlled by Japan- Port Arthur
 Russia had seized Port Arthur in 1897 and with the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia …show more content…
Tsar
Nicholas invited a group of workers to share tea and cakes with him some weeks later, but he now had the reputation of ‘Bloody Nicholas’

1905 Revolution
 Bloody Sunday Massacre sparked a revolution with almost all social groups and classes protesting
 Hundreds of government officials were murdered
 With the Russo-Japanese war still raging, Nicholas hoped for a military victory
 Mutiny began in June 1905, officers were thrown overboard on the battleship Potemkin. Armed forces could not be trusted
 Areas of the countryside were ablaze with peasant rebellions The October Manifesto
 Segei Witte appoint Minister of Interior and aimed