Russification under the Tsars
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- Created on: 15-01-21 11:29
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- Russification under the Tsars
- Alexander II
- Finland
- own currency (markka)
- Given a Diet and a constitution (1863)
- 1858: Finnish=official language of local self gov
- 1863: law passed requiring Finnish being introduced into public business
- 1870s: secondary schools in Finnish
- mixture of reaction and reform
- Baltics
- 1860s: Estonian and Latvian peasants allowed to buy land *reduces German Barons' power
- Ukraine
- 1863: publication in Ukrainian were banned
- -literature ban reinforced by the Ems Ukaz decree in 1876
- led to a low rate of literacy *in 1897, only 13%=literate
- Poland
- AII= King of Poland
- Finland
- Alexander III
- believed everyone should become 'Great Russians'
- Finland
- Finnish representatives are replaced with Pan-Slavist advocates
- disadvantageous trade tariffs imposed
- Russian language in gov
- Baltics
- Lativia: 1885, construction of orthodox church
- Russian law courts and schools
- Dorpat university renamed Lur'ev in 1893
- forced to teach in Russian
- Ukraine
- -works of Ukrainian poet Shevchenko= unpublished till 1905
- Poland
- laws against their language and culture continue
- 1885: Bank of Poland replaced by a cantor of Russian State Bank
- Nicholas II
- Finland
- integrated into Russian Empire
- separate army disbanded
- Russian=main language
- Response
- assassination of Bobrikov in 1904
- 1905: given full autonomy
- responsible for the russification
- assassination of Bobrikov in 1904
- Finland
- Alexander II
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