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748065309Decembrist Revolt1825 Anti-czar, pro-constitution Official nationality doctrine: orthodoxy (official religion), autocracy of the czar, nationality State-enforced nationalism1
748065310Crimean War1829 Russia suffered from weak planning and poor military Inspired by technology Britain/France/Ottoman versus Russian expansionism2
748065311Emancipation of Serfs1861 Freed from aristocracy and ties to the land but still owned by township Financial instability Need for state in affairs3
748065312Russo-Japanese War1895-1905 Japanese had binding treaty with Britain Imperial/expansionist tensions (Russia's railway)4
748065313Russian Revolution1905 Call for workers' reforms Mensheviks: evolutionary reform Bolsheviks: revolutionary reform Bloody Sunday: massacre of people striking for workers rights First mass attempt at communism October Manifesto5
748065314Lenin1917-24 Eliminating czar "Top down" communism instead of Marxist "bottom up" communism Leader of Bolsheviks who took total control after Russian Revolution Policies caused economic and agricultural collapse Mixed economy6
748065315Stalin1924-53 Collectivization of agriculture Kulaks: starvation, execution of farmers who refused Mass production of poorer-quality goods Weakened his own army due to paranoia about dissent7
748065316Gorbachev1985-91 Glasnost: loosening grip on media Perestroika: conversion to a more market-based economy Gradual conversion to capitalism/democracy may have put an end to Cold War Attempt to revitalize passion for communism Allowed for murder of protestors throughout the Bloc8

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