People to know

Question 1

Alexander II

Answer 1

1855-1881

First Tsar
Reformer, released farmers from serfdom; however, in dept to their lords
assassinated

Question 2

Alexandria

Answer 2

A granddaughter of Queen Victoria and daughter of Louis IV, grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, Alexandra married Nicholas in 1894 and came to dominate him.

Question 3

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 3

Leader of the bolishvik party, takes carl marx ideas and spread communism into russia. Lenin promised bread peace land, more specifcly land reform, end of the war, and no power to prov gov.

Question 4

Alexander III

Answer 4

1881-1894
repressor
makes okhrana secret police force that silenced people who thought of overthrowing the tsar
russification, repressed non-russians, repressed religious minorities
died before teaching his son, Nicholas II

Question 5

Rasputin

Answer 5

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus gaining considerable influence in late Imperial Russia. Monk,

Question 6

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 6

he joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (c. 1905) and became a prominent lawyer, frequently defending revolutionaries accused of political offenses. In 1912 he was elected to the fourth Dum

Question 7

Nicholas II

Answer 7

Ill prepared for duties and did not want to accept

Attempted to rule like father – retain autocracy

Forced to concede to constitution and political reform – Duma

Although agreed to Duma – dismissed at will (no experience)

Some reforms made under Stolypin – too little too late

Corruption at court continued – see Rasputin

Not prepared to task of Great War - managing

Question 8

Sergei Kirov

Answer 8

A Bolshevik Party member and organizer, Kirov was arrested several times for his revolutionary activities before the October Revolution (1917) placed the Bolsheviks in power in central Russia.

Question 9

Sergei Witte

Answer 9

In 1892, Witte was recruited into the ministry of Alexander III and given responsibility for transport, communications and finance. He would hold the latter portfolio for 11 years.
These recommendations culminated in the October Manifesto, a document that Witte reportedly drafted.

Witte’s support for these reforms did not mean he was a liberal. On the contrary, he wanted to preserve the tsarist autocracy as much as possible.

Question 10

Pyotr Stolypin

Answer 10

Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911) was a Russian politician who served as prime minister between 1906-1911. Along with Sergei Witte, Stolypin is regarded as one of pre-revolutionary Russia’s more competent leaders. He was a political reactionary who worked to re-strengthen tsarism and wind back reforms in the years that followed the 1905 Revolution.

Question 11

Josef Stalin

Answer 11

oseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign.

Question 12

Karl Marx

Answer 12

Founder of communism

Question 13

Father Gapon

Answer 13

Gapon, an Orthodox priest with an understanding of the Gospel as false as that of today’s revolutionary priests, organized Russian workers, encouraged them to strike, and led them on the disastrous march to the Tsar’s palace that culminated in what is known as Bloody Sunday, January 22, 1905.