Tsarist Russia
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- Created on: 04-02-18 17:21
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- Tsarists Russia
- Population
- 1.1% Nobility
- 84.9% Serfs
- 3.7% Urban Workers
- 5% military
- 0.5% Merchants
- 126 million in 1897
- 45% different ethnic group
- Military
- 1,400,000 men
- Very important to the Tsar
- Government
- Tsar most important
- Tsar has absolute power
- Motto: autocracy, orthodoxy, nationality
- Secret Police in action
- Religion
- Orthodox Church (Christianity)
- Tsar has full power over Church
- Strong element of mysticism in their beliefs
- Jews subjected to pogroms
- State
- Russia was the World's largest state
- One tenth of land used for arable farming
- Most lived in the East European Plain
- Class System
- Nobility
- Some wealthy but some were in debt
- Middle Class - Bourgeosie
- very small
- educated professions e.g. doctors, lecturers, lawyers
- Peasants Working class - Poletariat
- 50 million were peasants in East
- Half were owned by state or privately
- Lefe expectancy was 35 years
- Medieval farming techniques
- Couldn't read
- Nobility
- Economy
- Population increasing
- resources were strained due to high population
- Population increasing
- Export mainly grain
- Trade hard due to weather.
- Population
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