Russia+1750-1914


 * =POLITICAL=
 * **Leaders, Elites** || * Russia was still an absolute monarchy
 * The only absolute monarchy in Europe
 * Had no national parliament, no legal political parties, and no nationwide elections
 * The Tsar ruled unchecked.
 * Dominated by titled nobility
 * Autocratic ||
 * =ECONOMIC=
 * **Type of System**
 * **Technology, Industry**
 * **Trade, Commerce**
 * **Capital/Money**
 * **Types of Businesses** || * Change was initiated by the state, not the people
 * Peter the Great changed the administration, enlarged and modernized the Russian army, and created a new educational system
 * Catherine the Great continued to “Europeanize” Russia to make it more like China.
 * Began industrial development in 1860’s, but was more influenced by the state ||
 * == RELIGIOUS ==
 * **Holy Books**
 * **Beliefs, Teachings**
 * **Conversion**
 * **Sin/Salvation**
 * **Deities** || * A “backwoods” Orthodox Christianity was common among Serfs; it incorporated pre-Christian spirits, spells, curses, and magic ||
 * == SOCIAL ==
 * **Family**
 * **Gender Relations**
 * **Social Classes**
 * **Inequalities**
 * **Life Styles** || * Most Russians were peasant serfs
 * Russian Serfdom = slavery
 * There was a small middle class, and nobility and serfs
 * middle class was mostly factory workers after Russia began to industrialize
 * a revolution around 1905 caused the Tsar’s regime to make more substantial reforms ||
 * == INTELLECTUAL, artS ==
 * **Art, Music**
 * **Writing, Literature**
 * **Philosophy**
 * **Math & Science**
 * **Education** || * Nobles were highly Westernized
 * Serfs were not Westernized at all
 * Educational system established by Peter the Great ||
 * == NEAR: GEOGRAPHY ==
 * **Location**
 * **Physical**
 * **Movement**
 * **Human/Environment**
 * **Region** || * **Russians pushed to the west, south, and east with their main conflicts being with the Ottoman Empire** ||