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Alex I

Jan 1, 1801

EASED CENSORSHIP, PROMOTED EDUCATION. TALKED OF FREEING THE SERFS (liberal ideas).

DECEMBRIST REVOLT

Jan 1, 1825

LED BY GROUP OF ARMY OFFICERS. THE OFFICERS PICKED UP LIBERAL IDEAS WHILE FIGHTING AGAINST NAPOLEON. NEW CZAR NICHOLAS I SUPRESSED THE DECEMBRISTS.THR CZAR USED POLICE SPIES TO HUNT FOR CRITICS.

ALEX II

Jan 1, 1855

CAME TO THRONE IN 1855 DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR. WAR BECAUSE RUSSIA TRIED TO TAKE LAND FROM OTTOMAN EMPIRE. RUSSIA LOST. HE AGREED TO THE EMANCIPATE THE SERFS (EMANCIPATION OF SERFS). ALTHOUGH PEASANTS WERE NOW FREE THEY WERE STILL POOR. ALEX II TRIED TO MAKE INDUSTRIES AND FACTORIES BIGGER THAN AGRICULTURE. ZEMSTOVS ARE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (REFORM).

ALEX III

Jan 1, 1870

RUSSIFICATION-PROGRAM AIMED TO SUPRESS THE CULTURES OF NON-RUSSIAN PEOPLES WITHIN THE EMPIRE. ALEXANDER INSISTED ON ONE LANGUAGE, RUSSIAN, AND ONE RELIGION, RUSSIAN ORTHODOX.
PERSECUTION AGAINST POLES, UKRAINIANS, FINNS, ARMENIANS AND MANY OTHERS INCLUDING MUSLIM AND JEWISH.
POGROMS- VIOLENT MOB ATTACKS ON JEWS. LOOTED AND BURNED JEWISH HOMES AND STORES. THE JEWS FLED TO AMERICA.

MARCH 1881

Mar 1, 1881

REVOLUTIONARIES TURNED TO TERRORISM TO HAVE CHANGES COME. THEY HURLED TWO BOMBS AT THE ALEX III CARRIAGE. THEY KILLED A FEW GUARDS AND THE CZARS FATHER.

NICHOLAS II

May 1, 1890

FINALLY, RUSSIA ENTERED THE INDUSTRIAL AGE IN 1890. COUNT SERGE WITTE, FINANCE MINISTER FOR NICHOLAS II, FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD- LOANS FROM FRANCE

WAR WITH JAPAN

Jan 1, 1904

RUSSIA LOST. PEOPLE EVEN MORE MAD AND THEY DONT WANT TO PUT UP WITH RUSSIA'S PATHETICNESS. FATHER GEORGE GAPON ORGANIZED A MARCH FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1905.

BLOODY SUNDAY

Mar 22, 1905

CZAR LEFT THE WINTER PALACE, HE KNEW THE RUSSIANS WERE MARCHING TO HIM. HE ORDERED SOLDIERS TO KILL THE PROTESTERS. BLOODY SUNDAY MARKS THE DAY WHERE RUSSIANS LOST FAITH IN THEIR CZAR.

REVOLUTION OF 1905

Oct 1, 1905

CHAOTIC MONTHS AFTER BLOODY SUNDAY. STRIKES WERE ABUNDANT, ASSASSINS WERE LOOKED AS HEROES. NICHOLAS WAS FORCED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. DURING THE OCTOBER MANIFESTO HE PROMISED "FREEDOM OF PERSON, CONSCIENCE, SPEECH, ASSEMBLY, AND UNION." HE AGREED TO SUMMON A DUMA, OR ELECTED LEGISLATURE.

PETER STOLYPIN

May 1, 1911

PETER STOLYPIN, APPOINTED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER. HE ONLY BROUGHT ABOUT ARRESTS, POGROMS, AND EXECUTIONS TO BRING ORDER. HE WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1911 FOR NOT MEETING THE RUSSIANS NEEDS.

VLADIMIIR ULYANOV (LENIN)

Jan 1, 1917

REVOLUTIONARY, OLDER BROTHER EXECUTED FOR PLOTTING TO KILL ALEXANDER III. USED A FAKE LAST NAME, LENIN. WOULD TAKE POWER IN A REVOLUTION THAT WOULD CHANGE RUSSIA.