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Tsarist Regime Alexander Ii
1,838 words1. Catherine II (the Great). The successor of the sickly Peter III, Catherine II was his wife until his suspected murder and she took the throne in 1762. Although she made no great reforms in Russian society, she gathered many friends by her death in 1796. Catherine had to keep the nobility pleased at all times because if she didnt she could be dethroned easily. Because of this she carried out very few social reforms. Russia continued to follow an economic growth that Peter that Great had starte...
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Russian Civil War First World War
1,812 wordsInternational support for the Whites during the Russian civil war was woefully inadequate. How valid is this judgement? I will attempt to show that allied support for the Whites in the Russian civil war was inadequate by looking at the reasons for support and how they might impact on the level of support that was given, I will also look at the extent of support to see if it was inadequate, and finally, the relative importance of international support compared to other reasons for the White defea...
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Tsarist Regime Alexander Ii
809 wordsAs an autocrat, Alexander II recognized it as his duty to rectify a system that had manifestly failed Russia (in the Crimea as well as at home), yet he was uncertain how best to go about the task. Following the war political prisoners were released, censorship was relaxed, tax arrears were cancelled, serfdom was abolished and some of the liberties of Poland and of the Catholic Church were restored. The Crimean war had also illustrated faults in the social and governmental system of Russia which ...
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Tsarist Regime Alexander Ii
1,871 wordsThe successor of the sickly Peter III, Catherine II was his wife until his suspected murder and she took the throne in 1762. Although she made no great reforms in Russian society, she gathered many friends by her death in 1796. Catherine had to keep the nobility pleased at all times because if she didnt she could be dethroned easily. Because of this she carried out very few social reforms. Russia continued to follow an economic growth that Peter that Great had started. She tried to remove trade ...
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Acute Tsarist Regime
2,160 wordsAfter the October revolution of 1917, the population of Russia had many expectations of Lenin and the Bolshevik government. In some areas of Russian life freedom and individual choice were restricted, whereas in others the government was more lenient. The purpose of this essay is to determine whether the Russian people had the rights and freedoms they had had during the tsarist regime. By rights and freedoms, we mean privileges, entitlements, liberty and independence. It will be argued that in L...
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