HI 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: 1905 Russian Revolution, Utopia
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Peasants had legacies of serfdom ruled by aristocratic landlords. In 1861, russian czar alexander ii proclaimed the emancipations of the serfs, but all 200 millions peasants still remain tied to the land. Industrialization and urban conditions w/ factories and a new working class. Russian peasants on the land still worked, and even worked harder, to produce resources for the factories and cities. Liberals began to call for expanded rights and participation in government. Intellectual revolutionaries called for either anarchism or socialism. Anarchism is the overthrow of the government completely for small local units of government. The russian state developed a security apparatus that outcast or killed radicals. Triggered by defeat in russo-japanese war, but the czar blocked real democratization. Japanese won through a standstill and negotiated peace colonized korea and parts of manchuria. The people were dissatisfied with the present czar, but they did not completely overthrow the monarchy.
