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Great Northern War
This was about power within the baltic region btween Russia and Sweden. Sweden lost it's suppermany in the Baltic region and the power was replaced by Russia. -
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events leading to the russian revolution
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Decemberist Revolt.
This event took place Senate square in Saint Petersburg.This was in protest of Nicholas I’s assumption of the throne after his elder brother removed himself from the line of succession.The Decemberist were then deported to Siberia. -
Alexander I emancipates the serfs
This proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the household serifs. Serfs were granted the full rights of free citizens, gaining the rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property and to own a business, but by doing this many of them were in dept. Household serfs only gained their freedom -
Alexander II gets assassinated
This happened in the winter palace, in St. Petersburg. This was to overthrow the czar and establish socialism. They tried to organize the serfs but then the just did the assassination. He bled to death. The cause of this is because of a bomb that exploded and left him bleeding to death. There were 3 attempts, 1st one failed, but the second one worked and the third was back up -
Russo-Japanese War
Nicholas II wanted a warm water port for a all year functional port, but the Japanese also wanted korea for trade purposes as well.To gain the land Japan choose war and the Japanese won this because of the amount of time for more Russian troops to come. -
Russian revolution
A wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through out the Russian Empire. This included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. This led to the establishment of a limited constitutional monarchy, the creation of the Duma and eventual drafting of a Russian constitution. Most of the revolt was un organized. Workers started going to st. Petersburg for money, work conditions, shorter hours, and bonuses and they start to protest. -
Bloody Sunday
o This event took place in St. Petersburg, with a priest named fater Gapon led a peaceful march to the winter palace. Demonstrators were marching to present a petition to Nicholas II but they were gunned down by the imperial guards as they approached the city and the winter palace. -
Nicholas II Abdicates the Throne
He abdicated his throne following the February revolution of 1917. He and his family were imprisoned in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo then in the Governor’s Mansion in Tobolsk and lastly the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. He and his family were shot in the basement of the Ipatiev house by the Bolsheviks. The daughters tried to save the royal diamonds in their corsets and when they were first shot at the bullets ricocheted off of their corsets, but the bolshivics cut them off, shot them -
March Revolution
Key factors that contributed to this was the cuel treatment of peasants by patricaians, poor working condidions experienced by city workers in the fledgling industrial economy and a growing sense of political and social awareness of the lower orders in general.
