Date of Reign March 1 st 1881 October 20 th 1894 Mathias Gonczi Savannah Shaker Daniel Silva and Jacob Stark What Ideology Alexander III was a conservative idealist He repressed his opponents ID: 431253
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Alexander III
Date of Reign:
March 1
st, 1881- October 20th, 1894
Mathias
Gonczi
, Savannah Shaker, Daniel Silva, and Jacob StarkSlide2
What Ideology?
Alexander III was a conservative idealist…
He repressed his opponents
He undid his father’s reformsHe restored Russia’s position international and also Russia’s identity All of these things were conservative actions because he went to old policies and undid reforms which in other words was an anti-liberal act.
Did he change his ideology?
No, it seems like every time something happened he became more brutal than less which made him more conservative… Other leaders would have made a reform to appease the people, he didn’t. Slide3
What is Russification
?
It was a was a name to a policy of Alexander III
The first intent of Russification was that all Tsars had to accept all ethnic groups within the empire because they were the Tsar’s subjects no matter what nationality they wereAlexander III had his own belief on this which was that all cultures and nationalities within the empire should be wiped out and everyone should become “Great Russians”
This meant that all ethnic groups had to be loyal to their country and tsar because
Russification
had no time for small ethnic groups to worry about themselvesSlide4
Controlling Tactics
Alexander III was a brutal and controlling leader…
He made the government re-extend power to a local level, they used land captains to do this
The only thing that could remove land captains was the ministry, and the ministry was controlled by Alexander IIIAlexander III also made brutal decisions, one of which was Bloody Sunday when protestors were killed by the Russian army which was called by Alexander IIISlide5
Pogroms
Alexander III organized many massacres known as pogroms…
Pogroms are organized massacres
These massacres often mostly target the Jewish population, examples of this are the massacres in Russia and even the Holocaust(Which was a genocide of the Jewish Population under Hitler’s reign over Germany) Slide6
Industrial Policy
Alexander III wanted to expand and improve
russians
technologyKickstarted Russia’s industrial ageOpened many mills (textile and iron/steel)Slide7Slide8Slide9