20: It Was Time For A Change
I stuck around Saint Petersburg, when I saw it was time for a change.
– Sir Michael Jagger
The segments of Lecture 20 are:
- 20a: It Was Time For A Change
- 20b: Tsars and Terrorists
- 20c: War and Revolution
- 20d: Not With A Bang
- 20e: Conclusions
Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:
Tsar Alexander II, Liberation of the Serfs, russification, intelligentsia, "People's Will," Tsar Alexander III, pogroms, Tsar Nicholas II, Russo-Japanese War, Revolution of 1905, Tsaritsa Aleksandra Fyodorovna, Peter Stolypin, Grigori Rasputin, the February Revolution
Questions for consideration:
- How did Tsar Alexander II continue his father's process of alienating the Russian intelligentsia?
- What were the failings of the liberation of the serfs, and the consequences of these failings?
- How did Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II unwittingly create an atmosphere leading to revolution?