Nicholas II

Question 1

Who planned most agricultural changes?

Answer 1

Pyotor Stolypin

Question 2

What was the major industrial leap forward called, and who was the minister behind it?

Answer 2

The Great Spurt, Sergei Witte

Question 3

What allowed peasants to buy a stake in society, and when was it set up?

Answer 3

Peasant land bank - 1906

Question 4

When did the 2nd Duma meet?

Answer 4

1907

Question 5

What was the massacre of the miners called, and when was it?

Answer 5

Lena Goldfields massacre - 4th April 1912

Question 6

Who was the original leader of the SRs?

Answer 6

Georgi Plekhanov

Question 7

Menshevik newspaper

Answer 7

Iskra

Question 8

Which party was Alexander Kerensky a part of, when he was elected to the 4th Duma?

Answer 8

The Trudoviks - associated with SRs

Question 9

What did Kerensky present to the Tsar in the Duma in 1915?

Answer 9

A list of policies, enabling Russia to win WW1

Question 10

What had Stolypin allowed kulaks to do?

Answer 10

Opt out of the mir, and become independent farmers

Question 11

How much had wages risen between 1914 and 1916?

Answer 11

70%

Question 12

How did inflation change from jan to june 1914 to jan to june 1915?

Answer 12

15% increase

Question 13

How had inflation changed from jan to june 1916 in comparison to other years?

Answer 13

41% and 22.6% increase

Question 14

How had inflation changed from July to December 1916 in comparison to other times?

Answer 14

182%, 246% and 298%

Question 15

When was the first issue of pravda and when was it shut down?

Answer 15

May 1914, shut down in July 1914

Question 16

How many members did the Bolshevik party have in 1916?

Answer 16

8,000

Question 17

What did the 1905 revolution cause?

Answer 17

Distorted output and restricted food availability

Question 18

How had factories increased from 1900-13?

Answer 18

From 2m to 6m

Question 19

How had the urban population changed from 1867 to 1917?

Answer 19

7 million to 28 million

Question 20

How had the St Petersburg population changed from 1914 in comparison to 1864?

Answer 20

3/4 pop were peasant by birth, in comparison to 1/3. 1/2 of city population arrived in the last 20 years

Question 21

What was work like for women?

Answer 21

From 1865 to 1914, women went from 1/5 workforce to 1/3, earned less than 1/2 of industrial wage

Question 22

What were living conditions like in St Petersburg in the Early 1900s?

Answer 22

Workers lived in barrack like buildings, in 1900, 40% houses had no running water or sewage system, in 1908-9, 30k kids died from cholera

Question 23

By 1905, how had the average holding decreased from 1877?

Answer 23

It went from 35 acres to 28

Question 24

What was the life expectancy at the end of the 1800’s? How did this compare to England?

Answer 24

27 for men, 29 for women (in comparison to 45 in England)

Question 25

How had working hours changed from 1896 to 1914?

Answer 25

Went from 11hrs a day (by law) to 9/10 hrs a day

Question 26

How had the number of primary schools grown from 1896 to 1914?

Answer 26

From 79K to 81K

Question 27

What had Nicholas announced in regards to education?

Answer 27

A plan for universal primary education by 1922

Question 28

How many universities were there, and how many students were at university by the end of the 19th century?

Answer 28

9, 16.5K students

Question 29

Who was the head of the Kadets?

Answer 29

Pavel Milyukov

Question 30

Who was the leader of the Octoberists?

Answer 30

Aleksandr Guchkov

Question 31

What did the hangman's noose become known as?

Answer 31

Stolypin's neck tie - 5k people executed after 1905 revolution, 45k deported

Question 32

What was the paper penny called?

Answer 32

Kopek

Question 33

Where was russia industrially in comparison to the rest of the world?

Answer 33

4th largest producer of gold, iron and steel

Question 34

How had Russia's oil production increased under Sergei Witte?

Answer 34

It had trebled

Question 35

What did Witte do in regards to finance?

Answer 35

Reformed rouble - gold standard, centralised the economy

Question 36

How had train track mileage changed from 1891 to 1901 to 1903 to 1913?

Answer 36

17,264 to 31,125 to 36,400 to 43,900

Question 37

How had train traffic changed from 1903 to 1913?

Answer 37

76m to 158m

Question 38

What was industrial output and GDP like in 1909?

Answer 38

Increased 7% per year and 3.5% per year

Question 39

What was Russia's GNP per capita like, in comparison to Britain's?

Answer 39

20% of it

Question 40

What was the deficit like under Nicholas?

Answer 40

Generally in a deficit, came into surplus in 1910

Question 41

How did WW1 impact the Russian economy?

Answer 41

Railway system failed, price of food and fuel quadrupled in first 2 years, mass famine

Question 42

How much time did Stolypin say he needed for results ot agricultural reform?

Answer 42

20 years

Question 43

What did Stolypin do, and how did it impact Siberia's population?

Answer 43

Ended re distribution of land, so peasants allowed to move away from commune- 3.5 million moved to Siberia