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Flashcards by Caitlin Emerson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Caitlin Emerson
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| OUTCOME | peasant uprising trade disrupted intelligentsia demands for improvements humiliation damaged image of military power |
| CRIMEAN WAR | 1812: lost to Napoleon (need to restore image) June 1853: Russian Army sent to Maldovia. October 1853: Turks declare war. Russia sinks Turkish ship in the Black sea, provoking British and French forces to protect their trading territory. Russian defeats in Balaclava and Inkerman in 1854 MARCH 1855: Death of Nicholas I, power to Alexander II. the empire is "not in as good order as i would have wished" SEPTEMBER 1855: Sebastopol fallen. 1856: treaty of Paris, prevent Russian warships in the Black Sea (humiliating). |
| CAUSES FOR DEFEAT | Incompetence Cholera Poor transport (roads meant it took Russia longer to reach the front line than the French, weather, georgraphy, no railway south of Moscow) Outdated Technology (1 musket for every 2 soldiers, wooden ships) Inadequate Leadership Soldiers (served 25 years to prevent peasant uprisings, leaders the result of nepotism, not merit). |
| PROFILES | RUSSIA: large troops, confident, inflexible, poorly equipped, guardian of Christians and Slavs in Ottoman Empire. BRITAIN AND FRANCE: smaller, technical and efficient. 60,000 French and Russian forces. interested in protecting trade routes. OTTOMAN EMPIRE: retreating, failing to control religious minorities. |
| WAR AS A CATALYST | lack of nationalism, morale is weakened. counters Slavophiles peasants protest as government is weak; the use of the army calls into question their loyalty can't trade as doesn't have black sea access. Tsar is distracted from internal issues. need for industrialization. |
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