Alexander II and the beginning

Question 1

What percentage of the population were peasants around 1855?

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

What percentage of the population were nobles around 1855?

Answer 2

Less than 1%

Question 3

Count Sergei Semetev, one of the richest nobles around the middle of the 19th century, owned how many serfs?

Answer 3

Nearly 150,000

Question 4

What was the population of the empire in 1859?

Answer 4

Roughly 70 million

Question 5

What % of the population were members of the orthodox church in the middle of the 19th century?

Answer 5

70%

Question 6

How many clerics were there and what did they do that was important?

Answer 6

100 thousand, that exerted a huge influence over the peasants

Question 7

Who were the secret police at this time?

Answer 7

Third section

Question 8

What were the reasons for abolishing serfdom
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Answer 8

The Crimean war, the risk of revolt, the moral case, economic reasons

Question 9

From 1862 to 1905 noble landholdings fell from 87 million to how many desyatiny?

Answer 9

50 million

Question 10

How many peasant disturbances were there in 1861?

Answer 10

Over 1000

Question 11

What percentage did the nobility make up of A. The district zemstva B. Provincial councils?

Answer 11

A. 40%
B. 70%

Question 12

What fraction of government income did the army take up in the 1860s?

Answer 12

1/3

Question 13

How long were soldiers conscripted for before the reforms?

Answer 13

25 years, reduced to 15 if they had a good service record

Question 14

Between 1856 and 1878 the number of primary schools increased from 8000 to ___?

Answer 14

25000

Question 15

What percentage of professors left their posts between 1854 and 1862?

Answer 15

50%

Question 16

From 1865-1899 student numbers grew from 4000 to ____?

Answer 16

16000

Question 17

What measures did Pyotr Shuvalov take upon his appointment as head of the third section in 1866?
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Answer 17

1 Tightened up censorship, closing some periodicals
2 Tightened control on student activity
3 Vetted appointments to ensure conservatives gained posts
4 Increased use of rule by decree

Question 18

List Dmitry Tolstoy’s changes to education after the 1866 assassination attempt
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Answer 18

1 Classical subjects pushed over moderns ; Science removed in some schools
2 Entrance to university restricted to those with a classical education
3 Crackdown in universities with students associated with revolutionary movements expelled
4 Reduced the role of liberal dominated zemstva in primary schools

Question 19

What did activist and associate of Herzen, Nicholas Ogarev, say about serfdom?

Answer 19

‘Serfdom has not been abolished, the people have been deceived by the Tsar’

Question 20

Which Trials sent several hundred ‘going to the people’ narodniks to mostly, prison or exile
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Answer 20

1 Trial of the 50
2 Trial of the 193

Question 21

How many people were put under police supervision in 1880?

Answer 21

31000