Russia

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Railroad network:
- 1870

Benifits
- Allows people to travel through long distances in a shorter amount of time - Transporting goods have been made easy and quicker - Trading with surrounding countries improves - Russia becomes a safer community due to army being able to move around the country.

Negative Consequences
- Foreigners get their land taken over by Russia.

Political Reform:
- Russia enhances their technology - They catch up to world powers

Benefits:
- Russia is able to be looked up upon in the eyes of other countries - This inflicts fear in surrounding countries - Creates a safter community

Negative Consequences:
- Increasing in power might lead to unnecessary fear felt by other countries

Factories:
- Appeared in 1880

Benefits:
- Mass produce products for trade - Economy Boost - Increase in job opportunities

Negative Consequences:
- Forces people into factories - Opportunities taken away from people

=Social and Political Events:=

Russian political reform:
- became active in 1861

Benefits:
- Peasants are able to receive more care from the government - Leads to around 95% of the population to be happy

Negative Consequences
- The rich people lose their power due to the new government supporting the peasants

Treaty of Paris:
WIkipedia. "Congress of Paris 1856." //Wikipedia//. Wikipedia, 2009. Web. 31 Aug. 2011.

- 1856 - Established after the crimean war (which started because Russia tried to invade Istanbul, Turkey) - Made black sea a neutral territory

Benefits:
- Countries around Russia - Demilitarization of the black sea shut down influential impacts Russia had to their surrounding countries

Negative Consequences:
- Russia loses land and power - Countries view Russia as a weak society

The Revolution in 1905:


-The loss in Russo-Japanese War unleashed protests in Russia. -Urban workers and peasants joined liberal groups and started the revolution. -The government created the Duma. -Minister Stolypin launched important peasant reforms- greater freedom from redemption payments, liberal purchase and sale of land.

Benefits: -The poor peasants and workers can unleash their emotion and also had more freedom. Their life was much more easier because of the important reforms that Stolypin launched.

Negative Consequences: -The rich people enjoyed less freedom and earned less money. - The society was unstable and chaotic.

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Nicholas II and his family, 1905.

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