1881-1905

Question 1

Alexander II assassination by the People’s will

Answer 1

1881

Question 2

Creation of Land Captains

Answer 2

1889

Question 3

Alexander III’s manifesto

- absolute political power to the Tsar

Answer 3

End of April 1881

Question 4

The year land captains were made a part of the zemstva

Answer 4

1890

Question 5

Russian was made the official language RUSSIFICATION

Answer 5

1885

Question 6

Thousands of Jews fled from Russia due to pogroms RUSSIFICATION

Answer 6

Early 1890s

Question 7

Peasant land bank established

Answer 7

1882

Question 8

Ivan vyshnegradsky offered financial incentives to move to Siberia

Answer 8

1889

Question 9

Witte system placed emphasis on what 4 capital goods

Answer 9

Iron, Steel coal and machinery

Question 10

WITTE: investment from 3 countries

Answer 10

Britain, France and Belgium

Question 11

Much of the teams Siberian railway had been completed

Answer 11

1903

Question 12

WITTE: population of St Petersburg doubled between …

Answer 12

1890 and 1914 from 1 million to 2 million ‍‍‍

Question 13

Creation of the Social Democrat Party

Answer 13

1898

Question 14

Creation of the Social Revolutionary Party

Answer 14

1901

Question 15

Split of SDs Bolshevik and Mensheviks

Answer 15

1903

Question 16

1. Appearance of populist movement
2. Membership
3. Aims + tactics

Answer 16

1. 1860s
2. Educated middle class, university students
3. Attempts to gain mass support of the peasantry and extreme tactics - ‘the people’s will’ after this failed

Question 17

Division of the liberals into two major groups

Answer 17

1905

Kadets and octoberists

Question 18

Leader of SRs

Answer 18

Victor Chernobyl

Question 19

People’s will (SR terrorist wing) responsible for a wave of political assassinations between…

Answer 19

1901 and 1905, including tsars uncle grand duke Sergei in 1905

Question 20

Marxist ideas party

Answer 20

Social democrats

Question 21

What is to be done? Lenin date published

Answer 21

1902

Question 22

Second party congress of the social Democratic Party - faction split

Answer 22

1903

Question 23

The emancipation of the serfs

Answer 23

1861

Question 24

Russian population growing

Answer 24

From 98 million in 1885 to 125 million by 1905

Question 25

Harvest failures dates

Answer 25

1892, 1898 and 1901

Question 26

Assassination of Grand Duke Sergei

Answer 26

4 February 1905

Question 27

Russians forced to surrender their Port Arthur naval base in North China

Answer 27

January 1905

Question 28

Battle of Tsushima | Military humiliation

Answer 28

May 27 1905

Question 29

Russian Baltic Fleet had sailed almost halfway round the world, how many warships…?

Answer 29

25 out of 35 warships

Question 30

400,000 workers went on strike in response to Bloody Sunday

Answer 30

February 1905

Question 31

General strike

Answer 31

20 September to 30 October

Question 32

Black Sea flee, Potemkin mutiny

Answer 32

June 1905 - undermined the tsar's authority

Question 33

St Petersburg Soviet

Answer 33

Product of general strike October 1905

Question 34

St Petersburg soviet end

Answer 34

3 December when government troops arrested leader

Question 35

October manifesto

Answer 35

30 October 1905

Question 36

Peasant uprising, first one in Kursk province

Answer 36

February 1905

Question 37

'Union of the Russian people'

Answer 37

October 1905 political group linking pro government terrorists including black hundreds

Question 38

The fundamental law

Answer 38

1906

Question 39

Article 87

Answer 39

Right to the tsar to govern by decree

Question 40

First Duma

Answer 40

Elected April 1906

Question 41

First Duma lasted…

Answer 41

73 days

Question 42

14 newspapers banned between

Answer 42

1882 - 1889

Question 43

Peasant land bank

Answer 43

1882

Question 44

Universities closed due to demonstrations

Answer 44

1889

Question 45

Universities under government control

Answer 45

1884

Question 46

How much of annual expenditure on the army 1881?

Answer 46

45%

Question 47

Alexander III's death

Answer 47

1894

Question 48

WITTE SUCCESS 1900

Answer 48

Half industrial force were working in a factory with over 1000 workers

Question 49

Introduction of zemstva

Answer 49

1864

Question 50

WITTE SUCCESS coal production rose

Answer 50

From 3.2 tonnes per year 1880 to 26.8 1910

Question 51

Peasant ownership of land increase

Answer 51

20% to 50%

Question 52

How many death sentence

Answer 52

1144

Question 53

Redemption payments abolished - stolypin

Answer 53

New Year's Day - 1907

Question 54

Field court martial stolypin

Answer 54

(1906-7)