1- TSARS Flashcards
how did alexander the second die?
he was assasinated, someone threw a grenade at his carriage but it was bulletproof. after he got out to tend to the wounded, a second revolutionary set a grenade off under him and killed him.
who did alexander the third kill?
he killed the revolutionaries that killed his father, and those who were plotting to kill him. among those was lenins brother.
what did alexander do?
he ended the crimean freed serfs made judicial sytem more fair by banning bribery gave the secret police more power he sold alaska to the US
where was nicholas the seconds wife from?
hessen, germany
what did alexander III
-hunted down revolutionaries
-reverses some reforms that his father made
-statue of state security- made it illegal for groups to meet
-he changed his dads judicial reform back in hopes of the revolutionaries ‘getting what they deserve’
RUSSIFICATION- alienated national minorites, anti-semitic: pogroms
redemption payments
died of liver failure
nicholas II
- he knew nothing of government affairs
- very conservative and strong believer in divine right
- anti semitism still existed: pogroms
- very non-progressive
- made himself general (bad)
who were the narodnikis?
a socially conscious movement of the russian middle class who became involved in rebelling against tsardom in 1860’s and 1870’s
who was vera figner?
a revolutionary involved in the planning of alexander II assasination
who were the black hundreds?
radical nationalists and romanov supporters, who were xenophobes, anti-semitic and anti-communistic. they often incited pogroms
