Define the following terms:

Liberal Those who want some change but want it legally.

Radical Those who want great change and may suggest less than legal means to get it.


Conservative- Those in power who want to keep power.


Domestic vs. Foreign matters Domestic matters involves within your country, foreign matters
involve problems outside your country.


Autocratic One who holds absolute power

Divine Right theory The right to rule from the will of god


Russification A set of laws



Pan-Slavism The union of all Slavic peoples under Russian leader



Emancipation Edict- An act by alexander 2 that freed all the surfs


Peoples Will A terrorist organization that killed Alexander II with a bomb


Pogroms Violent riots aimed for massacres, many times aimed at Jews


Nihilists People that used violence


Social Democratic Labor Party A socialist party formed in 1898 to unite many organizations of the
Russian empire into 1 party.


Duma Council assemblies held for the election of the parliament






Answer the following questions:
1. Summarize Ideas:
a. Explain how liberalism affected Russias domestic policy.
Russia struggled with the influence of the west.
Russia faced problems caused by liberal ideas

b. Describe two features of Russias foreign policy .
It promoted pan Slavism
It sought to expand Russia but they lost the war


2. Organizing Ideas:
a. List the liberal reforms that Alexander II accomplished in Russia.
Serfs were bounded to a person instead of land. They are allowed to leave their masters with
permission.
He modernized Russia.
He reformed the Courts.

b. What did he do with regard to the serfs?
He later freed the serfs but many of them could not afford anything

3. Analyzing Ideas:
a. Why did the Revolution of 1905 fail to overthrow the monarchy?
The army remained loyal
The French lent money to the government
The many revolutionary groups were divided into their goals

b. How did Nicholas II respond to the Revolution of 1905?
He dismissed two sessions of Duma