NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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Russia had begun industrialization and tsars had allowed some reform but poor working conditions and repression continued, causing building resentment.
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Russia began industrialization later than other European countries but then built up quickly, bringing good jobs and security to the working class.
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Russian tsars went back and forth between reform and repression but eventually led reforms that strengthened the empire.
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Russian nobles supported reforms and industrialization, modernizing Russia and catching up with their western neighbors.
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Detailed explanation-1: -True industrialization didn’t kick off in Russia until the late 1800’s with reforms by Tsar Nicholas II and the minister of finance, Sergei Witte . Russia’s economy had a notable increase between 1890 and 1910, due in part to higher exports of natural resources and the expansion of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Russian Empire, governed at the time by Tsar Nicholas II, stretched from what is now Finland in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It entered the conflict on 1 August 1914, when Germany declared war. Its capital, Saint-Petersburg, was renamed Petrograd on 31 August in order not to sound too German.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although the European part of the Russian Empire was rich in raw materials its industrialisation started late, due mainly to the lack of labour and capital caused by centuries of extreme exploitation of the serfs and the nobility’s lack of interest in innovative economic projects.
Detailed explanation-4: -Impact of industrialisation in tsarist Russia: Due to construction of new factories thousands of landless peasants came to cities in search of work. Russia was living in ‘the old world’ under the tsars. Serfdom had been abolished, but it did not improve the condition of the peasants.