CHAPTER 32Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

World Civilizations: The Global ExperienceFifth Edition

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Chapter 32: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

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I. Russia's Reforms and Industrial AdvanceII. Protest and Revolution in RussiaIII. Japan: Transformation without Revolution

Chapter 32: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

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I. Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance

1861, Russia begins social, political reform

 Russian Expansion, 1815-1914

Chapter 32: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

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I. Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance

A. Russia before ReformAnti-Westernization backlash

Following Napoleon's invasion, 1812

 

Decembrist revolt, 1825

Suppressed by Nicholas I

Russia avoids revolutions of 1830, 1848

 

B. Economic and Social Problems: The Peasant Question

Crimean War (1854-1856)

Defeat by industrial powers

Alexander II turns to industrialization

Russian Expansion, 1815-1914

Chapter 32: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

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I. Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance

C. The Reform Era and Early Industrialization1861, emancipation of serfs

Forced to buy landsProductivity stagnant

 Alexander II

Reforms of 1860s, 1870sZemstvoesMilitary reformSome educational reform

 Industrialization

RailwaysPacific reached, 1880s

Siberia opened to developmentFactories, 1880sCount Witte, 1892-1903

High tariffsBanking system improvedWestern investment sought

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II. Protest and Revolution in Russia

 

A. The Road to Revolution

Ethnic minorities

Demands

 

Peasants

Famine, taxes

 

Anarchists

Fail to win peasant support

Suppressed

 

1881, Alexander II assassinated

 

New ideas

Marxist socialism

Lenin (Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov)

 

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II. Protest and Revolution in Russia B. The Revolution of 1905

Expansion continuesOttomans pushed back, 1870s

New Slavic nations createdInto ManchuriaDefeated in Russo-Japanese war, 1904-05

Revolution, 1905 

Duma createdMinister Stolypin

Agrarian reforms

C. Russia and Eastern EuropeOther nations follow Russia

Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, GreeceParliamentsEnd to serfdomSome industrialization

 Cultural revival

Turgenev, Dostoevsky, TolstoyTchaikovsky, Chopin, LisztMendel, Pavlov

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III. Japan: Transformation without Revolution

A. The Final Decades of the ShogunateShogonate

Alliance with daimyos, samurai

Culture under the Tokugawa

Thriving

Neo-ConfucianismVariety of schools

 

By 1850s

Economy slowing

Rural riots

 

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III. Japan: Transformation without Revolution 

B. The Challenge to IsolationCommander Matthew Perry

1853, Japanese ports forced to open

 

Shogunate bureaucrats

Open doors reluctantly

Others want to end isolation

Conservative daimyos for isolation

 

Unrest

1868, shogunate defeated

Meiji restoration

Emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji)

 Japanese Colonial Expansion to 1914

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III. Japan: Transformation without Revolution 

C. Industrial and Political Change in the Meiji State

Feudalism ended

Appointed prefects from 1871

State expanded

Samurai officials to United States

Study, promote change

 

1873-1876, samurai class abolished

Some find new roles

Iwasaki Yataro: Mitsubishi

 

Political reorganization

Constitution, 1889

House of Peers

Diet, lower house

 

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III. Japan: Transformation without Revolution

D. Japan's Industrial RevolutionWesternization in other areas

Military

Banks

Railways, steamships

Tariffs, guilds removed

Ministry of Industry,1870

Model factories

 

Zaibatsu, 1890s

Industrial combines

 

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III. Japan: Transformation without Revolution

E. Social and Diplomatic Effects of IndustrializationPopulation increase

 Culture

Universal education

Western dress adopted 

Conversion to Christianity limitedShintoism attracts new followers

 Need for raw materials

War with China over Korea, 1894-1895Alliance with Britain, 1902War with Russia, 1904Korea annexed, 1910

 F. The Strain of Modernization

Inter-generational debate

NationalismEmperor worship