Nicholas II Political Authority

Question 1

What nickname did Alex III give Nicholas II

Answer 1

‘Girlie’

Question 2

Proof Nicholas didn’t have faith in himself to rule

Answer 2

‘I am not prepared to be a Tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of ruining’

Question 3

Why was there resentment towards the Tsarist system when Nicholas II came to power

Answer 3

Failings in dealing with the 1891-92 famine
Repression of Alex III

Question 4

Why did Nicholas II’s reign begin badly

Answer 4

Stampede killed nearly 1,400 people at his coronation

Nicholas advised to continue with the banquet at the French Embassy (bad impression)

Question 5

What policy did Nicholas continue from Alex III

Answer 5

Russification

Question 6

What organisation did Nicholas support

Answer 6

The ‘Black Hundreds’

Question 7

Who were the Black Hundreds

Answer 7

Right wing anti semitic group that attacked ethnic minorities and anyone opposed to the Tsar

Question 8

How many students were arrested in 1901 due to open opposition in St Petersburg

Answer 8

1500 students

Question 9

What were the years 1903-04 known as? Why?

Answer 9

The years of the red cockerel

Peasants setting fire to landlord property and barns full of grain in the countryside

Question 10

Where had unrest spread to? (countries)

Answer 10

Poland, Ukraine and Georgia

Question 11

Who dealt with unrest so brutally that support for the Tsar declined

Answer 11

Pytor Stolypin

Question 12

What methods did Stolypin use

Answer 12

Peasants were flogged
People were exiled, shot or hanged

Question 13

What was named after Stolypin

Answer 13

The hangman’s noose

‘Stolypin’s necktie’

Question 14

How many strikes in 1894 compared to 1904

Answer 14

17,000 in 1894

90,000 in 1904

Question 15

What were being set up

Answer 15

Illegal trade unions

Question 16

What’s an example of violent clashes between strikers and armed police

Answer 16

The Obukhov factory in 1901

Question 17

Who was Moscow chief of the Okhrana? What was his idea?

Answer 17

Zubatov

Set up police backed trade unions in 1900

Question 18

How long did Zubatov’s trade unions last

Answer 18

Until 1903

Question 19

What was Zubatov’s trade unions idea called

Answer 19

Police socialism

Question 20

What happened to Zubatov in 1903? Why?

Answer 20

Sacked and exiled

One of his unions joined a general strike in Odessa

Question 21

Who set up a union in St Petersburg - 1904

Answer 21

Father Gapon

Question 22

Who was Plehve? How did he die and what was the response?

Answer 22

Internal Affairs Minister

Assassinated

Crowds in Warsaw celebrated in the streets

Question 23

What did Nicholas think about the Japanese

Answer 23

Though they were an inferior race and was highly racist

Question 24

Why was Nicholas racist towards the Japanese

Answer 24

One of his Japanese police escort had tried to kill him in 1891

Question 25

What was anti-Japanese patriotism supposed to do

Answer 25

Distract from internal opposition

Question 26

Where was the Russian fleet wiped out

Answer 26

Battle of Tsushima

Question 27

What was the issue with the Trans Siberian Railway in the Japanese war

Answer 27

Single track and not completed