key people 3
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- KEY PEOPLE
- RASPUTIN
- peasant with a lack of education which stopped him becoming a monk
- believed redemption could be achieved through sin, particularly sex, thanks to the Khylsty
- gained notice for his preaching
- introduced to Romanovs to help heal Alexis 1905
- gained power and prestige through the relationship he had with Alexandria
- influenced the hiring and firing of ministers
- murdered 1916
- MIKHAIL RODZIANKO
- russian politician, chairman of state duma and one of the leaders of the 1917 revolution
- monarchist
- despised Rasputin
- influential in convincing Nicholas to abdicate
- STALIN
- peasant
- attracted to Social Democratic movement 1898
- supported Bolsheviks after split
- editor of Pravda 1917
- minor role in october revolution
- commissar for Nationalities
- PYOTR STOLYPIN
- youngest ever govenor
- first to use police methods to quash disturbances in his province
- PM in July 1906 due to tsar's recognition of his law enforcement
- new court system
- carried through land reform
- muzzled the duma's
- health and education reforms
- suggested that he is responsible for staving off the threat to the monarchy
- assassinated 1911
- LEON TROTSKY
- rejected university education and devoted himself to politics
- remained mutual after the Social Democrat's splt
- founded a soviet in St Petersburg
- returned from the USA in May 1917 to work with Lenin & win over the masses
- Bolshevik and chairman of Petrograd soviet in Juloy 1917
- brains behind bolshevik takeover
- disliked by collegues
- asassinated by Stalin 1940
- IVAN VYSHNEGR-ADSKY
- finance minister 1887-1892
- strove to improve russian finances
- built up russias gold reserves
- increased indirect taxes & tried to swell grain exports
- by increasing tariffs, he reduced imports & therefore protected Russian goods from outside competition
- dismissed after 1981 famine
- SERGEI WITTE
- minister of finance 1882-1903
- able and forward thinking yet controversial
- wrote October Manifesto 1905
- Russia's first PM 1905 but was forced to resign after 6 months
- GREGORY ZINOVIEV
- joined social democrats 1901
- member of central committee 1907-1927
- supported Kamenev against October revolution, despite being close to Leniin
- wanted to work with other socialist groups
- head of petrograd soviet
- RASPUTIN
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