Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Main features of Russian society and Tsarist rule in the early 20th
century
- The Orthadox
church
- Church controlled schooling
- Most families had pictures of saints or the Tsar in
their house
- Supported the Tsars way of ruling
- Autocratic rule
- Until 1905 the Tsar had absolute power
- Dumas were established in 1905 but were
merely a consultative body
- Restrictions on the people
- Unions of workers and strikes were forbidden
- Newspapers and books were censored
by the government
- The difference between the rich
and the poor
- Growing middle classes due to
growing industry
- 80% of Russia were peasants
before 1917
- Life expectancy of less than forty years
- If harvests were poor, many died of
starvation or disease