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Russian Revolutions
Russian Revolutions (1917) From the end of the nineteenth century, rapid industrialization, urbanization, professionalization, the spread of literacy, as well as Stolypin's land reforms of 1906, created rapid economic and social change which was not accompanied by sufficient political, legal, or adm... Read more
Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel
Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel (1873–1950). Finnish-born American architect. He practised with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren from 1896 to 1905, and with Gesellius only until 1907, when he worked on his own, emigrating to the USA in 1923. He established his first American office at Evanston... Read more
Russia
Russia officially the Russian Federation, Rus. Rossiya, republic (2005 est. pop. 143,420,000), 6,591,100 sq mi (17,070,949 sq km). The country is bounded by Norway and Finland in the northwest; by Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west; by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest; a... Read more

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Nationalities Policies, Tsarist
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History NATIONALITIES POLICIES, TSARIST At the end of the nineteenth century...majorities in their core regions. The tsarist government never formulated a consistent...were not considered important by the tsarist government. Russia was a supranational...
Economy, Tsarist
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ECONOMY, TSARIST The economy of the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century was a complicated hybrid of traditional peasant agriculture and...
Banking System, Tsarist
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History BANKING SYSTEM, TSARIST From the time of Emancipation onward, Russian banks developed into the most important financial intermediaries of the empire...
Nationalism in Tsarist Empire
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History NATIONALISM IN TSARIST EMPIRE The Russian Empire penetrated Europe as Europe's age of nationalism began. The retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte after his...
Carpatho-Rusyns
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Ivan Orlai, chief physician to the tsarist court; and Yuri Venelin, Slavist and...Rusyn population, as well as to keep the tsarist government informed about local conditions...particularly supportive of contacts with tsarist Russia. From the outset of the national...
Capitalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...and by the late nineteenth century the tsarist government had permitted the establishment...order) in corporate enterprises led many tsarist bureaucrats, peasants, workers, and...guilds; merchants; nationalism in the tsarist empire; russia company bibliography Gatrell...
Danilevsky, Nikolai Yakovlevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...a point of departure for rationalizing tsarist Russian foreign policy. This expansionist...Petersburg, Danilevsky ran afoul of the tsarist police. As the reputed leading Russian...disavowed Danilevskian Pan-Slavism as a tsarist dogma, Leninism-Stalinism nevertheless...
Imperial Russian Technological Society
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...felt that the technology policy of the tsarist state was inadequate, especially in the...Economic Politics and Technical Training in Tsarist Russia." Ph.D. diss., University...1996). "The Engineering Profession in Tsarist Russia." In Russia's Missing Middle...
Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...von Plehwe) was a key figure in the tsarist regime's struggle against revolution...See also: nationalities policies, tsarist; nicholas ii; zubatov, sergei vasilievich...Zuckerman, Fredric S. (1996). The Tsarist Secret Police and Russian Society, 1880...
Razin Rebellion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...started as a Cossack attack on a fleet of tsarist ships sailing to Astrakhan. This success...threatened by the approach of a major tsarist force, Razin retreated down the Volga...of 1671 by the combined efforts of five Tsarist armies coordinated by Prince Yuri Dolgorukov...

Dictionary entries related to "Tsarist"

Russian Revolution
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Russo-Japanese War had just demonstrated the weakness of the Tsarist state, the underlying cause for discontent in the urban areas...one hand, and the continued denial of political rights in Tsarist Russia on the other. More immediately, the revolution itself...
Kazakhstan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...by Mongol khans, whose territories were steadily annexed by Tsarist Russia during the 19th century, the KHANATE being abolished...developed in the early 20th century and there was a bloody anti-Tsarist revolt in 1916. In 1917 a national government was proclaimed...
Russia, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...with as many nations as possible, and Congress hoped that tsarist Russia might be willing to not only recognize the new nation...become the dominant power in the Far East. The fall of the tsarist regime in March 1917 was welcomed by many Americans, and the...
Eighteen-Twelve
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Tchaikovsky, comp. 1880, commemorating Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812 and incorporating La Marseillaise and the Tsarist nat. anthem. Orig. idea was for perf. in a Moscow square with large orch., military band, cath. bells, and cannon...
Russian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...a branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Russian Revolution the revolution in the Russian empire in 1917, in which the tsarist regime was overthrown and replaced by Bolshevik rule under Lenin. The Russian Revolution of 1905 is the name given to a demonstration...
Mannerheim, Carl Gustav Emil, Baron von
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Carl Gustav Emil, Baron von (1867–1951) Finnish military leader and statesman. Trained as an officer in the Tsarist army, he rose to the rank of general, and, defeating the Finnish Bolsheviks (1918), he expelled the Soviet forces from...
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...of 1915 between Russia, Britain, and France (in which the Dardanelles and the Bosporus were to be incorporated into the Tsarist empire in return for British and French influence in the Middle East). Embarrassment was caused to the Allies when the Bolsheviks...
student revolts
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...universities produced student movements ( Burschenschaften ) supporting German nationalism and opposing the rule of METTERNICH . In Tsarist Russia students who agitated for liberal reforms were imprisoned, exiled, or executed. In the period between the two World...
Ukraine
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...subject to intensive campaigns to replace its culture and language with those of Russia. Nevertheless, after the collapse of Tsarist Russia in the Russian Revolutions of 1917, independence was declared with the encouragement of the German occupying forces...
Belarus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Polish and Lithuanian domination for centuries, until it came under Russian control in the late eighteenth century. When the Tsarist Empire collapsed after the Russian Revolution of 1917, independence was proclaimed briefly in July 1917, until the territory...

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The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe...sterling] hb. On the positive side, The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad points to some valuable...Russian revolutionary emigration and the tsarist police system during the reigns of Alexander...
Melancon, Michael The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State College Station: Texas A&...single event exposed the Crisis of Late Tsarist State because it revealed the impasse...how the shooting reverberated throughout tsarist society. The events in Siberia in the...
Terrorism with a Tsarist twist This stark account of the skulduggery practised by history's first organised terrorists grips George Walden
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia by Richard Pipes Yale, pounds...preposterous stuff. Yet the extremes of life in Tsarist Russia outdid fiction, and access to...sentimentalism, and fear that the reactionary Tsarist regime offered them and their caste no...
The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State. The Eugenie and Hugh M. Stewart...mining industry, with special attention to Tsarist labour laws and labour unrest. The Tsarist state used privately-owned firms to satisfy...
Books: The empire that Russia lost Dominic Lieven praises an authoritative account of the rise and fall of tsarist Russia
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/2/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...HarperCollins, pounds 20 THE HISTORY of tsarist Russia is more important now than at any...For the Russian nation, however, the tsarist era is by no means necessarily a safe...recommended to readers who know nothing about tsarist history and flee most academic tomes...
Issue of Tsarist-era debt closed with France.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 5/17/2006; 452 words ; Issue of Tsarist-era debt closed with France MOSCOW. May 17 (Interfax) - The issue of the Tsarist-era debt, incurred by the Russian government...Wednesday. She said that the issue of the Tsarist-era debt is closed and no one in France...
Protectors and watchdogs: Tsarist consular supervision of Russian-subject immigrants in Canada, 1900-1922
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...to demonstrate the role played by the tsarist diplomats in early twentieth-century...Belarusans living within the boundaries of the tsarist empire). While for some Canada was first...rank-and-file immigrants from the tsarist empire. While reading letters written...
Tsarist Spy Catcher Reburied in Moscow, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 10/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...themoscowtimes.com/ The reburial of a tsarist-era counter-intelligence hero in Moscow...public sentiments to build a bridge between tsarist and contemporary Russia, said Vitaly...100 years after the creation of the tsarist intelligence service. In 1903, Tsar...
The Military history of Tsarist Russia
Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; The Military History of Tsarist Russia edited by Frederick W. Kagan...of the 1400s to the collapse of the tsarist army in 1917. It is the companion...however, does include one piece on the tsarist navy, and several others mention significant...
Tsarist Spy Catcher Could Be New Symbol for FSB, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia); 10/26/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...sptimes.ru/ MOSCOW - The reburial of a tsarist-era counter-intelligence hero in Moscow...public sentiments to build a bridge between tsarist and contemporary Russia, said Vitaly...100 years after the creation of the tsarist intelligence service. In 1903, Tsar...