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Russian Empire

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Russian Empire

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Tsarist Rule

Autocracy and Divine Rule
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Symbols of Power

  • Imperial Crown
  • Two-headed eagle
  • Sceptre
  • Globus-Cruciger
  • Saint George
  • Principalities
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The Tsar

  • Religious and Political entity
  • Unrestrichted power
  • Center of the Empire and its institutions
  • Embodied the State and the Church
  • Legal owner of the Empire and everything within it
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Ruling Institutions

  • State Council
  • Holy Synod
  • Army
  • Council Administrators
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Consequences

  • Old-fashioned government
  • Undemocratic
  • Authoritarian
  • Limited space for reforms
  • Strong but inneficient
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The Price of Autocracy

  • Mid XIX Century
  • Russia saw the need to adjust
  • Strengthening ties with Western Europe
  • Became a "Modern Empire"
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Geography

  • Only 5% of territory was available for agriculture
  • Lacked a year-round operational port
  • Communications were inefficent
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Population

  • Only 20% of subjects lived in major cities
  • Overpopulation in rural areas
  • Effects of expansion
  • Growing ethnic groups
  • Nationalism
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Economy

  • Late and marginal industrialization
  • Primary rural economy
  • Isolated from markets
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Society

  • Dramatic inequality
  • Aristocracy's oppulency
  • Famine, hunger and death
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Nicholas II

  • Became Tsar at 26
  • Unprepared
  • Uninterested in Government affairs
  • Insular
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Alexandria

  • German-born
  • Non Russian Speaker
  • Shy
  • Deeply in love with Nicholas II
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Family Problems

  • Failed to produce a suited heir
  • Detached from social reality
  • Highly authoritarian
  • Gradually lost people's love and support
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Modernizing an Empire

  • Industrial Revolution
  • Urban centers
  • Trans-Siberian Railroad
  • Territorial expansion
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Capitalists/Industrials

  • Russian Aristocracy
  • Government supported
  • Owned 25% of land dedicated to agriculture
  • Profit driven mentality
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Saint Petersburg/ Moscow

  • Modernized and Industrial cities
  • More than a million people moved there each year
  • Workers living conditions
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The search of a port

  • Manchuria/ Anatolia
  • Empire's integration to the global markets
  • Political Purposes
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Carlos Terán