While Czar Nicholas was beloved by the people and reverently called ‘our father’, a new rival patriarch entered the Russian economic-political scene in 1904. Father Gapon, an Orthodox priest, retracted from his religious duties in order to organize the “Assembly of Russian Factory Workers” (Freeze 150). Gapon lead the labor movement in hopes to peacefully achieve the…
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Emancipation Declination
by Anna •
After suffering defeat in the Crimean War, late Imperial Russia underwent many reforms in an effort to reestablish national confidence and internal stability. Some of these reforms included changes to the judicial and educational system as well as installing zemstvo- an elected … Continue reading →