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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...
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...
Left Socialist Revolutionaries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...conditional, temporary support for the tsarist government's war efforts. Meanwhile...movements it spurred wore down the incompetent tsarist state and overthrew it on March 12 (February...that had proved so effective against the tsarist regime. By late summer and fall, the...
Chapbook Literature
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...publications, were subject to censorship in tsarist Russia. Although the state was concerned...February Revolution brought an end to the tsarist autocracy, there was a brief upsurge...Readers and Reading at the End of the Tsarist Era." In Literature and Society in Imperial...
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...
Khanty
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Khanty were clan elders and princes who collected taxes for Tsarist authorities and were responsible for native administration...nationalities policies, soviet; nationalities policies, tsarist; northern peoples; siberia bibliography Balzer, Marjorie...
Uvarov, Sergei Semenovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Autocracy would provide stability with patriarchal but progressive tsarist leadership. The concept of nationality promoted an indigenous...by the fact that he resigned twice, in 1821 and 1849, when tsarist policy turned reactionary and threatened the aim of educational...

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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...
Savings Bonds
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...back citizens at the promised rate of interest, its allies in the war either could not make payments, as was the case with tsarist Russia, or made them at a much lower rate interest than originally promised, as did the United Kingdom, France, Italy...
Debt and Investment, Foreign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...became profoundly dependent upon American loans to finance their war efforts. By 1920 European governments, including that of tsarist Russia, owed the U.S. government $12 billion. European investors had drawn their U.S. balances down to $3 billion...
Baptists
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...extensive Baptist movement in Continental Europe, spreading to Slavic-speaking peoples. Baptists were generally persecuted in Tsarist Russia , increased in numbers during the early years of the Soviet regime but later suffered from the restrictions on religious...
absolutism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...nineteenth-century Meiji Japan. This definition is, however, not uncontroversial: the label has also been applied to Tsarist Russia, where the transition was from feudalism to communism , and some would deny that Japan was ever a feudal society in...
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (Andreyevich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...the art of clear and colourful orchestration, and to us today his mus. seems to epitomize the brilliance and pageantry of Tsarist Russia. Lately the splendour of his operas has been re-discovered. His influence on his most distinguished pupil, Stravinsky...
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...
Piłsudski, Joseph Klemens
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Joseph Klemens (1867–1935) Polish general and statesman. His involvement in early revolutionary activity against Tsarist Russia had led to his imprisonment. In World War I he raised three Polish legions to fight Russia, but German refusal to...
Latvia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...lasted until 1721, when parts again reverted to Russia, the remainder succumbing in the partitions of POLAND . From the 1880s Tsarist governments imposed a policy of Russification to counteract growing demands for independence, which was proclaimed in April...
Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Russian monk Born in Prokoskoye in Siberia, the son of a peasant, he claimed mystical healing powers. He came to live at the Tsarist court in 1907. His beneficial treatment of the haemophiliac Crown Prince won him a disastrous hold over Tsarina Alexandra...

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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...
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...
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...
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...
New book tells about experiences of Mennonites in Tsarist Russia, USSR
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 1/18/2003; 368 words ; ...01-18-2003 "A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923...G. Rempel's "A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923...well. This history describes "one of tsarist and early Soviet Russia's smallest...
Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era.(Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era. By Louise McReynolds (Ithaca...pp.). Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia. By Eugene Anthony Swift (Berkeley...herself from an impoverished orphan into tsarist Russia's premier actress" at the Alexandrinka...
Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1881-1940/Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1770-1917/A History of Russian Theatre/The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Louise McReynolds, eds. Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies...Constructing Russian Culture and Entertaining Tsarist Russia, are cultural studies anthologies...a collection of essays; Entertaining Tsarist Russia is a collection of primary documents...
Tsarist Debt Leads To Grab For Hermitage Art Treasures, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia); 7/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...1996, the two governments signed a bilateral agreement on tsarist debt, which stipulated that Russia would pay France a fixed...AFPER, which unites over 15,000 descendants of holders of Tsarist- Russian state bonds, says that the agreed sum is inadequate...
RUSSIA: 'A TSARIST FLAG AND A SOVIET HYMN'.(Russia's national flag)(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 8/22/2001; 550 words ; ...that "In Russia, everything is different than it is elsewhere. Just look what is being done. The flag is tsarist, the shield is tsarist, but the hymn is Soviet. I can't believe my eyes. It might somehow be possible to combine the first two...
Russia votes to restore Tsarist flag
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/9/2000; 250 words ; ...Soviet anthem as Russia's new national anthem, and reinstated a tsarist- era flag and crest as the country's official national emblems. The Bolsheviks abolished the tsarist flag in 1918, replacing it with a red banner with gold hammer and...