- 1800 w. Europe Industrializes
- Russia drags behind
- Czars feared change
- Social System blocked progress example Serfdom
- Alexander II feed Serfs 1861(many unsatisfied)
- (Son) Alexander III persecuted non Russians
- Insisted on one language
- Attacks on progress
- Alexander III & her son Nicholas II led Russia to industrial age
- Problems> factory owners as unfair as nobles
- Demonstrations "Bloody Sunday" Jan 22,1905
- Revolution
- 1905 Nicholas II sets up Duma (lawmaking body)
- Unrest period
- Russian rev.
*Causes*
- Low sprits due to 1904 Japan defeat.
- Poverty- working conditions
- Corrupt Gov.
- Persecution of minority groups
- Bloody Sunday killings
*Results*
- October Manifesto/Czar Nicholas II new freedom reforms
- Duma is set up
- Nicholas II dissolves 1st Duma after being criticized
- Polgroms continue
- Voting laws limit power of Duma
