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02/06/2011

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Bloody Sunday
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Mssacre of peaceful protesters at Winter's Square in St. Petersburg.
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Duma
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Russian parliament opened in 1906, elected indirectly by universal male suffrage but wiith absolute veto power from the tsar.
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Homestead Act
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Result of the American Civil War that gave western land to settlers.
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Kulturkampf
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"Struggle for civilization," Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church.
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Modernization
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The changes that enable a country to compete effectively.
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October Manifesto
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The result of a great general strike in October 1905.
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Red Shirts
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Guerrilla army of Guiseppe Girabaldi who invaded Sicily in 1860 in an attempt to "liberate" it and won the hearts of the Sicilian peasantry.
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Reichstag
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The popularly elected lower house of government of the new German Empire after 1871.
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Revisionism
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An effort by various socialists to update Marxian doctrines.
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Revolution of 1905
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Result of discontetnt from Russian factory workers and peasants as well as an emerging nationalist sentiment among the empires minorities.
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Zemstevo
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A new institution of local government in reformed Russia, whose members were elected by a three-class system of towns, peasant villages, and noble landowners.
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Zionism
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Movement toward Jewish political nationhood, started by Theodor Herzl.
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Zollverein
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German customs union formed in 1834 to stimulate trade and increase the revenues of member states.
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