Russian History Key people

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Nicholas Alexander Milyutin
Slavophile, helped write emancipation ukase and involved in the setting up of the zemstva
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Dmitrii Milyutin
Soldier then became alexanders minister for war
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Dmitrii Tolstoy
Reactionary who had influence in the church and was later education minister, responsible for counter reforms in th 1870s
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Karl Marx
German jew who wrote the communist manifesto in 1848. also wrote das kapital
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Georgi Plekhanov
Leader of Land and liberty and Black partition, later attracted by Marxism, cofounded the emancipation of labour movement then became a menshevik. "Father of Russian Marxism"
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Sergei Witte
Expert on railways, minister of finance 1892-1903 madfe much economic progress. Wrote the october manifesto
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Konstantin Pobedonostev
Tutor to Alexander 3 and nicholas 2, influential presence behingf hte tsar known as the black tsar, head of the governing body of th orthodox church- used this to spread his autocratic ideas, anti semitic
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Alexander Ulyanov
Lenins older brother, participated in radical student politics, helped reform the peoples will but was arrested and executed after trying to assassinate the tsar
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Viktor Chernov
Originally a populist, joined the pepoples will but was arrested and sent to exile, helped form the SRs in 1901, became leader of the SRs in the second duma and was part of the PG
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Lenin, involvwed in marxist groups then exiled so missed the launch of th SDs, caused the SDs to split and became leader of the Bolsheviks, lead the bolsheviks to take power in October 1917
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Lev Davovitch Bronstein
Trotsky, Radical Marxist who joined the SDs but did not pick a side when they split, founded the st petersberg soviet in 1905, became a bolshevik in july 1917, formaed the MRC organised the revolution. Killed by a stalinist agent in 1929
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Julkius Martov
Helped found the emancipation of labour, was a leading menshevik at the time of the split, later exiled by the bolshevik government
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Pyotr Sturve
Originally a marxist but disliked their violant methods so became a liberal, helped found the kadets and was in the second duma
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Pavel Milyukov
Helped found the Kadets, part of the progressive bloc, wanted a constitutional democracy but was part of the PG
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Prince Lvov
A Kadet who became the chairman of the all russian union of zemstvos, was the first head of the PG
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Ivan Goremykin
PM inearly 1906 during the first duma, was friends with Rasputin so became PM agfain in 1914, killed in december 1917
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Pyotr Stolypin
Governor of Saratov province in 1905, efrfectively used police methods to quell disturbances, PM 1906-11 in this tim,e he did a series of affective agrarian reforms, electoral reform and carried out fierce repression. assassinated in 1911
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Rasputin
Siberian peasant who supposedly had holy healing powers, Alexandra became reliant on him as he could "cure" her son. He had great influence in politics especially after the Tsar went to the front, so many disliked him and he was killed in Dec 1916
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Alexander Kerensky
Was a socialist but wasnt sure which group to join, elected onto the duma in 1912 as atrudovik, joined the SRs in 1917 and became minister for justice in the provisional government, became minister fpr war in may and PM in july, was deposed by the bo
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Kornilov
Was appointed commander in chief of the army injuly , tried to stage a right wing coup failed and was arrested
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Kamenev and zinoviev
Bolsheviks who opposed the proposed armed uprising in 1917, wanted to work with other socialists
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Soldier then became alexanders minister for war

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Dmitrii Milyutin

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Reactionary who had influence in the church and was later education minister, responsible for counter reforms in th 1870s

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German jew who wrote the communist manifesto in 1848. also wrote das kapital

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Leader of Land and liberty and Black partition, later attracted by Marxism, cofounded the emancipation of labour movement then became a menshevik. "Father of Russian Marxism"

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