Russification under the Tsars Flashcards
What can russification be defined as?
-the transmission of Russian language, religion and culture.
-seen originally with the Polish revolt.
What did some view Milyutin’s reforms such as the Zemstva following the Polish revolt?
-Katov-‘asking for trouble’ ‘arming the enemy
-Wanted forceful takeover instead.
Where did Russification tend to spread under Alexander III and Nicholas II?
-places of lesser opposition.
-Ukraine, baltic and caucuses.
-unified empire.
How did the Tsars before Nicholas II treat Finland?
-fairly liberally
-allowed a sweedish parliament
How did Nicholas II treat Finland under Bobrikov?
-bobrikov appointed as governor general.
-fully russified
-army dispaded + state secritat abolished
How did Nicholas II treat Finland under Stolypin?
-1905 brief independence after Bobrikov was assassinated.
-gone back in the same year.
How did the Tsars treat the Baltic states?
-native Russians moving there
-raw material supply + industrial activity
-Russification followed naturally.
How did Alexander II and Alexander III treat Ukraine?
-poorly, forbid publication and importation of books in Ukrainian.
-reinforced by Alexander iii.
How did the tsars treat the caucuses?
-Russifcation because of earlier illiteracy
-populist movement rose against- Georgian menchavicks + Dashnaks- disliked.
What did the Georgian Menchavicks form under the Tsars control of the caucuses?
-self defence millitia.
What did the Dashnaks form under the Tsars control of the caucuses?
-allied with Germany.
How did the Tsars treat Turkmenistan?
-insensitive- tried to conscript during ramadan
-natives struggled because of steppe statutes- free land if they moved there.
How did the Tsars treat Manchuria?
-took land
-Vladiovstock- established as an important port
-tsars exploited mineral deposits + chinese eastern railway.
