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18) What was the first step toward
industrialization in Russia?
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19) Who was Count Witte? What did he do?
1) How did Russia and Japan defy the
common pattern of Western domination?
20) What was the relationship between Russian
industry and foreign capital by 1900?
2) Characterize Russia’s and Japan’s
development economically and militarily by
the early 20th century
21) Rank Russian industrialization by 1900
3) How did Russia and Japan approach the
west differently?
22) What local advantages did Russia have in terms of
industrialization?
23) List the causes of Russian unrest during the second
half of the 19th century
4) How were Russia and Japan similar in
terms of industrialization prior to 1914?
24) What was the role of the Russian intelligentsia?
5) What caused Russia to fear too much
westernization?
25) Who were the anarchists? What did they want?
How did they operate to achieve their goals?
6) What were the characteristics of the Holy
Alliance?
26) What were the characteristics of Russian Marxism?
7) What was the Decembrist ring? What did
they do in 1825?
8) How did Russia avoid revolutions in the
1830s and in 1848?
9) Describe Russian territorial expansion
10)Describe the Russian economy at the
beginning of the 19th century
11) How does the Crimean war relate to
Russia’s widening gap with the west?
27) Who were the Bolsheviks? How did they relate to
Lenin’s ideas?
28) What contributed to working class radicalism in
Russia in the late 19th century?
29) Failure in what war led to the Russian revolution of
1905?
30) What happened in the revolution of 1905?
31) What reforms stemmed from the revolution of 1905?
What was the role of the liberals?
32) Who was Stolypin?
12) Why did the west win the Crimean war?
33) What was the Duma?
13) What czar started reforms in the 19
century? What were those reforms?
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14) In what ways was serfdom reformed?
34) Who were the Kulaks? What did they achieve after
1905?
35) Who were the great 19th century Russian novelists?
15) When were serfs emancipated?
16) What came with serf emancipation?
17) What were Russian reforms in the 1860s
and 1870s?
36) How did the Tokugawa Shogunate deal with a
central bureaucracy and regional diamyos?
37) Describe Tokugawa intellectual and cultural life
38) What was the Dutch studies group? What did they
advocate?
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39) Who forced the opening of Japan in 1853?
45) What were zaibatsus?
40) When did Mutsuhito take the throne?
What did he implement?
46) How did imports and exports impact Japans
industrialization?
41) What advantages did Japan have over
China in terms of industrialization?
47) What did the Japanese adopt culturally from the
west?
42) What were the political reforms of the
Meji era?
48) How did Shinto impact industrialization in Japan?
43) How did these reforms compare with
those of Russia?
44) How was Japanese and Russian
industrialization similar and different?
49) What were the social stresses associated with
Japanese industrialization?