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Oppression of lower classes, critique of serfdom, sexuality/body, identity, and ownership are all themes that are in Tolstoy's book ...
This writer was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox church
This writer died of heart failure at a train station
This writer's views involved rationalized Christianity, "conscience is the source of truth and morality", vegetarianism, and pacifism
Russian realistic writer and one of the most famous novelists who wrote Anna Karenina, Kholstomer, and War and Peace
His means was to create a "service state" in which nobles would serve him while receiving protection against peasant insurrections or other nobles.
Before Peter the Great men could grow bears. After Peter the Great men had to shave their beards and wear western style clothes and shorter coats. Russian woman had to wear bonnets, petticoats, and skirts.
Azor because it gave access to the Black Sea. Constantinople because it would give him control over its straits, the crucial passage between Europe and Asia leading to the Black Sea.
All male nobles were required to enter state service, serving in the army, navy or bureaucracy. It also allowed commoners who rose through the bureaucracy or military to assume noble titles.
His son announced that when he was crowned tsar he would end the Western reforms and restore old Russian customs.
They disliked changes in Church ritual that reformers had implemented. Peter the Great put the church under state control and he did not name a new patriarch, when the old patriarch died and he eventually abolished the office.
Peter proclaimed Russia as an empire which confirmed Russian primacy in the Baltic region. Added Estonia and Livonia to Peter's empire, brought Russia closer to European affairs.
Sweden was an absolutist state, Charles XII acted on impulse, not reflection. He relied on warfare instead of diplomacy., He wouldn't ally with Prussia or other states which hurt Sweden in the long run.
The resulting chronic shortage of rural labor, and the need to provide landed estates to loyal nobles.
Who was the holy man who influence on Czarina Alexandra led a group of Russian nobles to murder him?
What was the purpose of the Soviets state's Five Year plan?
How did peasants react to the idea of collective farms, what did they do in response, and what solution did the government come up with ?
Who made all economic decisions under Joseph Stalin's command economy?
What name was given to the event when workers were killed outside the Winter palace?
Efforts to modernize Russia had little success because ____ imprisoned or exiled critics