Pillars of Tsarism
The pillars of Tsarism:
Secret Police
Russian orthodox church
Army
Bureaucracy
Nobility
- Created by: Jamie Kemp
- Created on: 06-05-14 14:10
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- The Pillars of Tsarism
- Secret Political police
- WEAKNESSES
- Not a large organisation (about 50000 of them in 1914
- WEAKNESSES
- Bureaucracy (civil Service)
- WEAKNESSES
- Numerically small in relation to the countrys size
- Had a reputation for being slow moving, inefficient and corrupt
- Role
- To implement and enforce government policies
- WEAKNESSES
- Army
- Role of the army
- To fight foreign but also suppress Russia`s popular discontent by force.
- Weaknesses
- Officers disliked role of suppression of internal discontent. Soldiers badly paid and poorly treated by officers
- Role of the army
- Nobillity
- 1.8 million nobles in 1897 including ennobled bureaucrats and landowners. Landowners played an important part in maintaining order in the countryside
- Weaknesses
- After emancipation of serfs in 1861 influence waned although government tried to revive it.
- Russian Orthodox Chruch
- Nominally had millions of adherents
- Weaknesses
- Not Deeply respected. Associated with Tsarism - priests ordered to preach bedience to the Tsar led to unpopularity
- Secret Political police
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