Russia

Imperial Russia, 1856-1903
Russia in 1855; the freeing of Serfs; other reforms and economic growing; territorial expansion and war against the Turks; Polish resistance; 
scholarly person rebellion and the assassination of Alexander II; Alexander III, pogroms and repression; Nicholas II, tsar from 1894
Russia in 1855
Russia fought the Crimean War (1853-56) with the largest standing army in Europe. Russias nation was extensiveer than that of France and Britain combined, but in that war it failed to defend its grunge from attack mainly by the British and French -- in the Crimea. This failure shocked the Russians and demonstrated to them the inadequacy of their weaponry and head and their economic backwardness relative to the British and French.
Being ineffective to defend ones realm from foreign attack was a great humiliation for Tsar Nicholas I, who died in 1855, toward the end of the war. He was succeeded that form by his eldest son, Alexander II, who had to be careful non to offend the Russian people while seeking an abusive end to the war. The best he could do was an humiliating treaty, the accord of Paris -- signed on March 30, 1856.



The treaty forbade Russian naval bases or warships on the Black Sea, leaving the Russians without security measure from pirates or whomever along its 1,000 miles of Black Sea coastline, and leaving unprotected merchant ships that had to pass through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. The treaty removed Russias take on of protection of Orthodox Christians within the Ottoman Empire, and it allowed the Turks to make the Bosporus a naval arsenal and a place where the fleets of Russias enemies could assemble to keep Russia.
In his manifesto announcing the end of the war, Alexander II promised reform, and it was welcomed by the people. Those in Russia who read books other than the Holy Bible were eager for reform, some of them with a Hegelian confidence in historic development. These readers were more nationalistic than...If you want to get a dear essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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