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This is when Russia realized it needed to modernize because they were defeated easily since their transportation was bad.
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Type of local government. GOvernment hoped this would lead to a national parliament but did not happened.
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Reform went down hill from here because the new tsar was a determined reactionary not a reformist. This caused Russia to experience hard times in the 1880s (mostly politically).
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Made the government build state-owned railroads , established high protective tariffs, and used the west to catch up with the west. (Was competent minister of finance.)
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FIght for northern Korea
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Both wanted northen Korean territory.
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Workers wen peacefully to present a petition to tsar, but the workers were massacred. Produced a wave of general indignation. More political parties came out into the open. Caused many uprisings.
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This caused political upheavel at home. People didn't just want economic modernization. People also wanted political modernization. Meant to turn absolute monarch into a liberal, representative regime. Called for self rule.
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Issued by the tsar, granted full civil rights and promised a popularly elected duma with real legislative power. The middle class leaders, formelrly opposing the tsar, helped government repress uprisings and keep constitutional monarchy because they were afraid of the Manifesto.
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Tsar kept most of the power. The duma and an upper class could debate and pass laws all they wanted but the tsar had an absolute veto. People dissapointed--this is going backwards not forwards.
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Tsar had dismissed the Duma because they couldn't cooperate and made a new Duma. Second Duma was more hostile and radically opposed.Tsar abolished Duma. Rewrote electoral lawsto increase weight of property classes at the expense of workers, peasants, minorities.
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Done since old ones caused problems.