tsarist Russia
Romanov-era empire
Tsarist Russia refers to Russia under the rule of tsars, the emperors who governed from the sixteenth century until the 1917 revolution.
The term evokes autocratic rule, imperial expansion, and the rigid social hierarchies of the old regime: His grandfather fled tsarist Russia as a child.
Also spelled czarist.
- Time of TroublesRussian political chaos period
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- autocracyRule by one
- pogromsOrganized persecution of minorities
- ukaseAuthoritative imperial proclamation
Okhrana · secret police · Romanov dynasty · Napoleonic Wars · Pale of Settlement · Bolsheviks · boyars · Duma · February Revolution · intelligentsia · peasants · bread riots · censorship · Petersburg · Mensheviks · Crimean War · Peter the Great · Russo-Japanese War
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Romanov, czars, USSR
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Old Regimesabsolutism, divine right, feudal system, Qing dynasty, nobles
- Russia literatureDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev
- Russian JewsPale of Settlement, refuseniks, pogroms, pogrom, shtetl
- Tsarist Russiatsars, czar, Romanov, Romanov dynasty, Nicholas II
tsarist Russialiberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
parliamentary democracy · democratic republic · constitutional democracy · provisional government · constitutional republic
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