Industrialization of Russia.. 19th century. (1 Viewer)

[Kichiko]

Hello.

I am doing an essay on the industrialization process and its significant events in Russia during the 19th century.

And i am absolutely stuck on it...

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

 

[pig_93]

ah i dunno
i guess NEP and esp 5yr plans

 

[jackal8]

there are a few point which must be covered:

modernisation=industrialisation

reasons for modernisation
debate on modernisation i.e socialism in one country vs. permanent revolution
five year plans
collectivisation

those should be adequate

 

[Meldrum]

Oh/my/god.

Are you people decrepit or something?

The question says 19th century....19th C=1800-1899.
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I'd be pretty fudged for it if I were you, too...I suppose you could talk about how Russia was left behind, compared to the rest of Europe who began to be heavily industrialised. Russia's lack of industry showed through in their loss of the Russo-Jap war in 1905 - that's not 19th C but you can use it, and the political parties who formed in response to it.

You should probably also talk about:

- The Tsar not wanting to revolutionise as it would detract from his rule
- The economy being geared towards agriculture, which needed heaps of people
- Russia was cut off from the rest of Europe in the 19th century, seen as a kind of Tasmania.
- Russian peasants were stupid and didn't want to change
- Russian Orthodox religion saw industry as the devil
- Russian scientists and engineers pretty much didn't exist...

That last point gets me really worked up: Russians are so stupid. For example, 3 weeks before the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917, Lenin told the people of the Peter-Paul fortress to fire their cannons to signal the start of the uprising...So, it gets to the night of the insurrection and they find out the cannons are fake...The revolution only occurs because the Kronstadt sailors are in port.

So, here's my logic:

1) Sailors made the revolution
2) The revolution established communism
3) Communism killed n x 100000000000's of people and had the world scared forever

Hence, Sailors are the devil.

 

[paper cup]

Oh/my/god.

Are you people decrepit or something?

The question says 19th century....19th C=1800-1899.
____________________________________________________

I'd be pretty fudged for it if I were you, too...I suppose you could talk about how Russia was left behind, compared to the rest of Europe who began to be heavily industrialised. Russia's lack of industry showed through in their loss of the Russo-Jap war in 1905 - that's not 19th C but you can use it, and the political parties who formed in response to it.

You should probably also talk about:

- The Tsar not wanting to revolutionise as it would detract from his rule
- The economy being geared towards agriculture, which needed heaps of people
- Russia was cut off from the rest of Europe in the 19th century, seen as a kind of Tasmania.
- Russian peasants were stupid and didn't want to change
- Russian Orthodox religion saw industry as the devil
- Russian scientists and engineers pretty much didn't exist...

That last point gets me really worked up: Russians are so stupid. For example, 3 weeks before the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917, Lenin told the people of the Peter-Paul fortress to fire their cannons to signal the start of the uprising...So, it gets to the night of the insurrection and they find out the cannons are fake...The revolution only occurs because the Kronstadt sailors are in port.

So, here's my logic:

1) Sailors made the revolution
2) The revolution established communism
3) Communism killed n x 100000000000's of people and had the world scared forever

Hence, Sailors are the devil.

isn't that prelim stuff?
the Nicholas system -basically all the tsars based their systems on it. autocracy, orthodoxy, nationality. whenever anyone tried to bring in a reform they ended up getting assassinated or something so they'd regress back to conservatism. the serfs were emancipated in 1861 but that didn't improve their living or working conditions much. so, basically, 19th century Russia was a hellhole.