Nicholas II's Rule 1894-1905
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- Created on: 19-05-17 08:57
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- Rule of Nicholas II 1894-1905
- 1860's
- 1861 - Abolition of Serfdom
- 1861 - population 74million
- 1864 - establishment of elected local government
- 1880's
- 1881 - assassination of Alexander II by the People's Will
- 1889 - Land Captains introduced (members of the nobility who supervised the peasants)
- 1890's
- population was approaching 150million
- 80% were peasants
- 1897 census data suggests that only 21% of pop. could read
- 1892 - Sergei Witte appointed Finance Minister
- 1894 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar
- 1898 - RSDLP established (Russian Social Democratic Labour Party)
- population was approaching 150million
- 1900-03
- 1900
- 2500 Okhrana agents in the empire
- RSDLP established their newspaper Iska
- 1901 - army called out to deal with 271 workers' strikes
- 1902
- Army called out to deal with over 500 strikes
- Socialist Revolutionary Part (SR's) established
- 1903
- Bolshevik and Menshevik split of the RSDLP
- 1900
- 1904 - 05
- 1904
- Feb - Russo-Japanese War begins
- 1905
- January - Bloody Sunday (200 deaths and 800 injuries)
- January - Japan surrendered after long siege of Port Arthur
- Feb-March Russian forces lost battle of Mukden
- May - Lost almost all 52 ships in Battle of Tshushima
- June - Mutiny on Battleship Potemkin
- October Manifesto - promises formation of a duma with law making power
- October - Black Hundreds organised a pogrom against Jews - 800 killed
- 1904
- 1860's
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