Global Studies II Name ___Darren Delaney________

Unit II Russia Date ______________

Define the following terms: [remember, youll need these terms for your quizzes answer them well!]

Liberal Open to new ideas and willing to make change.


Radical A person who demands drastic changes in the current system.


Conservative- Someone who is completely against change and keeps the traditional ways.


Domestic vs. Foreign matters A liberal movement that made so much change on other European
nations but barely affected Russia.


Autocratic one who holds absolute power.

Divine Right theory This is a policy that says no monarch is subject to any earthly authority, deriving
the right to rule directly from the will of god.


Russification Program that forced non-Russian people in the empire to use the Russian language,
accept the Orthodox religion, and adopt Russian customs.


Pan-Slavism The union of all Slavic people under Russian leadership.


Emancipation Edict- a policy put that came about in 1861 by Alexander II which freed all serfs.

Peoples Will a movement where many Russian radicals began to turn to violent action. Terrorism was a
big thing to try and force the government to grant their demands.


Pogroms riots where Alexander III and Nicholas II discriminated against minority groups like Jews.


Nihilists People who believe traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and and that existence is
useless and senseless.

Social Democratic Labor Party a group founded in 1898 by the socialists in imitation of the German
Social Democratic Party.


Duma The election of a parliament that was provided by the October Manifesto.






Answer the following questions:
1. Summarize Ideas:
a. Explain how liberalism affected Russias domestic policy.
By the early 1800s, liberalism began to attract some of the educated members of the Russian aristocracy. To
counteract liberalism, the government strictly censored speech and the press and rejected all demands for a
constitution.

b. Describe two features of Russias foreign policy .
There was the Pan-Slavism which was the union of all Slavic people under Russian rule in the Balkans. Also,
Russia was looking to continue to expand. They expanded east into Asia and South toward the Ottoman
Empire.


2. Organizing Ideas:
a. List the liberal reforms that Alexander II accomplished in Russia.
First he allowed rural districts to elect zemstovs, or councils. These people could levy taxes and control
programs like public health, education, assistance for the poor, local crafts, and some local public works
systems. He also reformed the courts. He had the civil and criminal courts modeled after their European
counterparts. Appeals courts and local justices of peace were also put in.

b. What did he do with regard to the serfs?
He saw that is was very clear something needed to be done about Serfdom. This is when he issued the
Emancipation Edict which freed all the serfs.



3. Analyzing Ideas:
a. Why did the Revolution of 1905 fail to overthrow the monarchy?
There were 3 reasons this revolution failed. First, the army remained loyal and thus would not end the czars
regime. Next, the French lent money to the government. And last, many revolutionary groups were divided in
their goals.


b. How did Nicholas II respond to the Revolution of 1905?
He did not learn a thing from this revolution. Using extreme repressive measures as before, the autocracy
tried vainly to resist change and to preserve the thousand-year-old monarchy.