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| 332396260 | Holy Alliance | Conservative monarchies of Russia, Prussia, and Austria would combine in defense of religioin and teh established order | 0 | |
| 332396261 | Decembrist uprising | Revolt; inspired new Tsar Nicolas I to even greater conservatism; secret police expanded; newspapers and schools tightly supervised | 1 | |
| 332396262 | Crimean War | Fought in Russia's backyard on Black Sea; Western forces won; convinced Alexander II it was time for change; needed to keep up militarily | 2 | |
| 332396263 | emancipation of the serfs | more generous than the liberation of slaves; serfs recieved most of the land; aristocratic power preserved; created larger urban labor force | 3 | |
| 332396264 | zemstvoes | local political councils; no influence on national policy | 4 | |
| 332396265 | trans-Siberian railroad | connected European Russia with Pacific; stimulated expansion of iron and coal; stimulated export of grain to West; | 5 | |
| 332396266 | Sergei Witte | minister of finance; enacted high tariffs to protect russian industry; improved banking system; encouraged western investors to build factories with updated technology | 6 | |
| 332396267 | intelligentsia | articulate intellectuals as a class; radicals; seeked greater freedom in school and press; right to vote | 7 | |
| 332396268 | anarchists | sought to abolish all formal government; tried to triumph with peasant support | 8 | |
| 332396269 | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | aka Lenin; Marxist leader; argued that spread of capitalism was causing proletariat; animated the Bolsheviks | 9 | |
| 332396270 | Bolsheviks | (majority) party; really the minority; Marxists | 10 | |
| 332396271 | Russo-Japanese War | Japanese won; stopped Russian expansion onto Chinese and Korean territory | 11 | |
| 332396272 | duma | national parliament; created by tsarist regime to satisfy liberals | 12 | |
| 332396273 | Stolypin reforms | peasants gaind freedom from redemption payments and village controls; could buy and sell land more freely | 13 | |
| 332396274 | kulaks | aggressive entrepreneurs; began to increase agricultural production and buy additional land | 14 | |
| 332396275 | terakoya | commoner schools; taught reading, writing, and rudimentary confucianism | 15 | |
| 332396276 | Dutch Studies | knowledge needed to continue trade with Dutch traders | 16 | |
| 332396277 | Matthew Perry | American Commodore; used threats of bombardment to allow american trade; | 17 | |
| 332396278 | Diet | allowed limited power through constitution in Meiji Bureacracy | 18 | |
| 332396279 | zaibatsu | industrial comines; formed as a result of accumulations of capital and far-flung merchant and industrial operations | 19 | |
| 332396280 | Sino-Japanese War | Japanese won over China; first step towards expansion and growing asian power | 20 | |
| 332396281 | yellow peril | West feared this; thought it should be opposed through greater imperial efforts | 21 |
