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152949871Holy AllianceThis was the alliance between Austria Prussia and Russia on the crusade against the ideas and politics of the dual revolution.0
152949872Decembrist UprisingPolitical revolt in Russia in 1825; led by middle-level army officers who advocated reforms; put down by Tsar Nicholas I.1
152949873Crimean WarA war fought in the middle of the nineteenth century between Russia on one side and Turkey, Britain, and France on the other. RUssia was defeated and the independence of Turkey was guaranteed2
152949874emacipation of serfsAlex II did this, however many people were too poor to buy land afterwards; still many's lives stayed same3
152949875zemstvoesLocal political councils created as part of Alexander II's reforms; gave the middle class professional experience in government but did not influence national policy.4
152949876Trans-Siberian railroadConstructed in 1870s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; completed by the end of the 1880s; brought Russia into a more active Asian role.5
152949877Count Sergei WitteRussian Finance minister who oversaw Russia experience tremendous industrial growth; reformed commercial law, protected infant industries, supported steamship co., promoted nautical and engineering schools; Russia grew enormous coal and iron industries6
152949878intelligentsiahighly educated, cultured people7
152949879anarchistspeople who believe there should be no government8
152949880Vladimir Ilyich UlyanovRussian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)9
152949881BolsheviksLed by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI10
152949882Russian Revolution of 1905Imperialist ambitions brought defeat at the hands of Japan in 1905 and political upheaval at home. The Bloody Sunday massacre, when the tsar's troops fired on a crowd of protesting workers, produced a wave of indignation. By the summer of 1905, strikes, uprisings, revolts, and mutinies were sweeping the country. A general strike in October forced Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto, which granted full civil liberties and promised a popularly elected parliament (Duma). The Social Democrats rejected the manifesto and led a bloody workers' uprising in Moscow in December. Middle-class moderates helped the government repress the uprising and survive as a constitutional monarchy. (p.840-841)11
152949883Russo-Japanese WarRussia and Japan were fighting over Korea, Manchuria, etc. Began in 1904, but neither side could gain a clear advantage and win. Both sent reps to Portsmouth, NH where TR mediated Treaty of New Hampshire in 1905. TR won the nobel peace prize for his efforts, the 1st pres. to do so.12
152949884dumaThis was a legislative parliament in Russia with real political power13
152949885Stolypin reformsReforms introduced by the Russian minister Stolypin intended to placate the peasantry in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905; included reduction in redemption payments, attempt to create market-oriented peasantry.14
152949886kulaksProsperous Russian Peasents that - under Stalin - were sent to Labor Camps as punishment for being succesful15
152949887terakoyaCommoner schools founded during the Tokugawa shogunate to teach reading, writing, and Confucian rudiments; by the middle of the 19th century resulted in the highest literacy rate outside of the West.16
152949888Dutch studiesGroup of Japanese scholars interested in implications of Western science and technology beginning in the 18th century; urged freer exchange with West; based studies on few Dutch texts available in Japan.17
152949889Matthew PerryA commodore in the American navy. He forced Japan into opening its doors to trade, thus brining western influence to Japan while showing American might.18
152949890Meiji RestorationThe political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism.19
152949891DietJapanese parliament20
152949892zaibatsuThe large family-controlled banking and industrial groups that owned many companies in Japan before World War II.21
152949893Sino-Japanese War(1894-95) War fought between China and Japan. After Korea was opened to Japanese trade in 1876, it rapidly became an arena for rivalry between the expanding Japanese state and neighbouring China,22

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