Challenges to the Tsar
- Created by: Georginamunster
- Created on: 03-04-15 12:00
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- Challenges to the Tsars
- Political
- autocratic rule
- He wants to run a modern country with an old fashioned regieme
- Alexander 2nd
- Alexanders reforms led to an expectation for reform
- ZEMSTVA - wanted a national party
- Reduced censorship
- Emancipation of the serfs 1860 - prevented farming reforms
- Economic
- Agriculture
- 80% peasantry
- problems of mirs did not encourage efficient farming
- 1880's 1/3 of land lay fallon
- 1880s 1/3 farmland produce surplus
- 1883 peasant land bank
- famine of 1891 followed by 1892 + 1893
- Industry
- By 1900 1/2 industry workforce employed in factories more than 1000 workers
- doubled in 1890-1914 1m to 2 m
- Factories made it easy to spread discontent
- By 1900 1/2 industry workforce employed in factories more than 1000 workers
- Agriculture
- Transport
- Poor communication between cities
- No way to move food, resources, workers
- Growing Population
- only 1/3 or population could read
- 1815 - 45m 1914 170m
- Problem of feeding population with inefficient farming and poor transport
- Nationalities
- 44% Russian
- Poles especially resist - They want an independent Poland
- Problem Raising Finance
- Indirect taxes on vodka, sugar, tea, tobacco, matches
- The poor bought these the most and so were heavily taxed
- Increased disontent
- Political
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