Radical Those who want great change and might go past the legal limit to

go do it
Liberal Those who want change but will keep it in the legal limit
Conservative- Those who are in power and just want to stay in power and no
change to that
Domestic vs. Foreign matters
Domestic- Laws/actions that have to deal with the country and citizens of
that country.
Foreign- Only deals with things like laws that deal with their nation and only
their nation.
Autocratic A form of government of an Autocrat
Divine Right theory- using religion to rule
Russification Breaks into three reforms called Nationality, Autocracy, and
Orthodoxy
Pan-Slavism - union of all Slavic people under Russian leadership
Emancipation Edict- Freed all serfs and allowed peasants to buy in small
tracts from the government
Peoples Will Radical group of people who became terrorists.
Pogroms Jews were forced migration to the Pale.
Nihilists Intellectual thinkers and not really doers.
Social Democratic Labor Party group of people who helped the Russians
governments repression back fire
Duma Official assembly
1. Summarize Ideas:
a. Explain how liberalism affected Russias domestic policy.
Political parties were forbidden which caused liberals and radicals to form
movements of their own. The government censored and the press while
denying all demands for a constitution.
b. Describe two features of Russias foreign policy .
One of the features was that Russia Promoted Pan-Slavism which was the
union of all Slavic people under Russian leadership. Another feature was that
Russia wanted expansion east into the Asia and south toward the Ottoman
Empire. But expansion was halted after the defeat in the Crimean war.
2. Organizing Ideas:
a. List the liberal reforms that Alexander II accomplished in
Russia.
Alexander II allowed rural districts to elect Zemstvos, which were county
level councils, that could levy taxes and controlled systems like the public
health and education. Also, reformed the courts civil and criminal courts
were to be modeled after their European counterparts.
b. What did he do with regard to the serfs?

He issued the Emancipation Edict in 1861, which freed all the serfs in Russia.
However, it did not nearly as much as it is defined to have.
3. Analyzing Ideas:
a. Why did the Revolution of 1905 fail to overthrow the
monarchy?
The revolution failed for 3 main reasons: The army remained loyal and would
not end the czars regime, the French was bound to Russian by military
alliance lent money to the government and many revolutionary groups were
divided in their goals; moderates feared radical demands and radicals
disagreed amongst themselves.
b. How did Nicholas II respond to the Revolution of 1905?
The government treated people with contempt, and the bureaucrats broke
laws that they were entitled to enforce. The autocracy, or Nicholas, tried
hard to resist change and to preserve the 1000 year old monarchy.