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Dr. Zhivago’s Russia Dr. DenBeste Professor of History CSU Fresno

Academic Decathlon 2012

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Russian Names—How to keep track ¡  First names ¡  Diminuitives (often end in –a or –sha)

¡  Nadezhda=Nadia, Alexander can be Sasha or Sashka

¡  Patronymics

¡  Endings (ovna, evna for women –ovich, -evich for men)

¡  Polite form of address

¡  Thus: Fedor Alekseevich Dostoevsky

¡  Sofia Alekseevna Dostoevsky

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Geography ¡ Challenges of Russian

geography ¡  Lack of fixed geographic

boundaries

¡  Vast

¡  Access to water

¡  Borders

¡  Climate

¡  Time Zones

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Alexander I (1777-1825) ¡ Napoleonic Wars

¡  Invasion of Russia in 1812

¡ Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)

¡  Holy Alliance (Prussia and Austria)

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What did 19th century Russia look like?

¡  Empire

¡ Autocratic government

¡ Orthodox

¡  Serfdom

¡  Emerging industry

¡ Contacts with west (Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, diplomacy, travel)

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Crimean War 1853-1855 ¡  Russia lost use of Black Sea

¡  Relinquished control of mouth of the Danube

¡  Lost access to orthodox church in Ottoman Empire

¡  But, mostly, Russia lost face

¡  Started under Nicholas I, settled by Alexander II

Nicholas I 1825-1855 Alexander II 1855-1881

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Alexander II’s great reforms ¡  Emancipation of the serfs (1861)

¡ Military Reform

¡  Educational Reform

¡ Church Reform

¡  Legal Reforms

¡ Creation of the Zemstvo

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Nicholas II 1894-1917

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End of century problems—or what caused the revolution? ¡  1. serfdom

¡  2. changes in military structure—losses at war

¡  3. contacts with west (napolenic wars)

¡  4. inflexible political structure

¡  5. WWI

¡  6. Refusal to change

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Revolutionaries ¡ Decembrists (1825)

¡  Populists (Narodniki)

¡  Socialist Revolutionaries (SR’s or Essers)

¡ Marxists (Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Socialist Democrats)

¡  Liberals

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1905 ¡  Bloody Sunday

¡  October Manifesto

¡  Duma

¡  Fundamental Laws

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WWI ¡  Huge casualties of up to 35 percent of its troops

¡  Lack of preparedness

¡  Lack of supplies

¡  Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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1917 ¡  Provisional Government

¡  Petrograd Soviet

¡ Alexander Kerensky

¡  Lavr Kornilov

¡ Dual Government

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From Lenin to Stalin ¡ War Communism

¡ Civil War

¡ NEP

¡  Inter Stalin Years

¡  Five Year Plans

¡ NKVD

¡  Purges

¡  Totalitarianism???

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