Russia 1894
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- Russia 1894
- Foreign relations
- Russia feared by west most of 19.C due to expansions being threatening
- Concerned to exert authority in Caucasus region
- Involved in Crimean War (1853-56), Russo-Turkish (1877-78)
- Fell out with Austria. alliances made with France and Prussia
- Economy
- Russia well behind industrialised nations (USA, UK, GER)
- Economic activity related mostly to agriculture
- Financial and banking sectors didn't really exist
- Economic growth been very slow
- Some industrial progress but most activity was small scale
- Society
- Urbanisation had started and industrial workforce had begun to grow
- Serious social unrest over living and working conditions, especially in countryside
- Despite freedom and access to land under Alexander II, peasants still unhappy with quality and quantity
- Peasants controlled by mir, headed by village elders
- Landed gentry and nobility dominated society. small middle class
- Tsars before N.II implemented reforms to improve working and living conditions
- Politics and Government
- Members of gov selected by Tsar
- Ruled by autocratic Tsar, whose powers said to be ordained by God
- Gov based in St.Petersburg
- Elites were concerned Russia was falling behind Western Europe and would become a second-rate power
- Gov made use of secret police to maintain orer
- Empire
- Population: 1815 = 40m 1897 = 125m
- minority groups wanted independence
- lots of diversity (language, religion, culture)
- 8 million sq miles, 5000 x 2000 miles
- Most lived in European Russian. Many in Moscow and St.P
- Religion
- Through urbanisation, appeared more detached from wants and needs of population
- Conservative body
- Supported authority of Tsar
- Dominated by Russian Orthodox (christian)
- Foreign relations
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