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Question 1

aii
domestic policies

Answer 1

judicial reforms
censorship reforms
military reforms
government reforms (the zemstvo)
– 1866
education reaction
judicial reactions
police reactions
loris melikov constitution

Question 2

aii
foreign affairs

Answer 2

crimean war 1853 to 1856

Question 3

aii
opposition

Answer 3

polish rebellion 1863
populists 2 time unsuccessful in countryside
land and liberty
people will formed 1979
opposition not widespread but growing in intensity
assaination of the head of the third section 1978
assaination of alexander ii 1881

Question 4

aii
terror

Answer 4

third section
and show trials for revolutionaries
had to be reversed tho because jury would aquit them

Question 5

aii
agriculture

Answer 5

tax on farming replaced with indirect taxation
tried to steal americas cotton industry during the civil war
emancipation 1861 to 1866
hoever limited policy due to redemption payments and mirs

Question 6

aii
industry

Answer 6

gov subsidies to build railways
attempted to boost industrialisation but ⅓ of gov spending went to debt
and the rouble was too unpredictable for foreign investment

Question 7

aii
society

Answer 7

education reforms
very feudal and divided

Question 8

aiii
domestic policies

Answer 8

judicial reactions

Question 9

aiii
opposition

Answer 9

growing underground / illegal opposition groups, especially in acaedmia

Question 10

aiii
terror

Answer 10

reactionary reforms on policing
tightening of censorship
no groups larger than 5 allowed in universities
the okhrana being formed

Question 11

aiii
agriculture

Answer 11

redemption payments decreased
establishment of land banks
famine 1891-92
dealt with by the zemstva

Question 12

aiii
industry

Answer 12

reformist factory legislation
regulation on child and women labour
tariffs increasing to protect infant industry
starting to export oil, pig iron and crude oil
budget surplus 1892
witte helped secure foreign investment from europe/france

Question 13

aiii
society

Answer 13

russification
orthodoxification
reactions in education

Question 14

nii
domestic policies

Answer 14

dumas after the october manifesto
tsarina and rasputin left in charge after tsar went to war

Question 15

nii
foreign affairs

Answer 15

wwi
originally positive reaction (won first few battles)
but became quickly obvious the war would not be quick
massive amounts of casulty
worsened by nicholas becoming commander in chief
despite poor military experience

Question 16

nii
opposition

Answer 16

minister of education assasinated by the peoples will 1901
bloody sunday
most of opposition presented through strikes and revolts
like the krondstadt revolt
february revolution

Question 17

nii
terror

Answer 17

military zones - imposition of martial law
lena goldieds massacre 1912
bloody sunday 1905

Question 18

nii
agriculture

Answer 18

stolypin land reforms (needed 20 years of peace)
for peasants to own their own land
and have better allocation for surpluses

Question 19

nii
industry

Answer 19

massive massive shortages during the war
inflation 300%
unemployment, starvation, strikes, etc.

Question 20

nii
society

Answer 20

emergence of a middle and urban class
start of industrial depression
worsened by the war conditions
no morale by the end of the war

Question 21

lnn
domestic policies

Answer 21

forming of sovnarkom
nationality decree
constituent assembly met once then dissolved
1918 constitution - very uneven voting and sovnarkom still held control
banning of factions 1921

Question 22

lnn
foreign affairs

Answer 22

eventually lost land in ukraine and poland in the brest likovsk
decree on peace
chose to prioritise socialism in one state

Question 23

lnn
opposition

Answer 23

the civil war
opposition press did exist because it got banned 1919
national struggle in poland
tambov revolt
krinstadt rising

Question 24

lnn
terror

Answer 24

use of cheka
widespread arrests, executions, exile
political repression of the SRs and mensheviks

Question 25

lnn agriculture

Answer 25

decree on land nep great for agriculture caused scissor crisis

Question 26

lnn industry

Answer 26

workers control decree nationalisation of the bank state capitalism war communism nep

Question 27

lnn society

Answer 27

womens decree abolition of class hierarchy military laws

Question 28

stln domestic policies

Question 29

stln foreign affairs

Answer 29

wwii breakdown of russo german alliance weakened by russias own german propaganda and poor planning and economy, had expected more time

Question 30

stln opposition

Answer 30

ryutin platform 1932 old bolsheviks stalins wifes suicide letter 1932 the left opposition led by trotsky (opposed from exile, wanted international revolution) right oppositon, led by burkahrin (criticised pace of 5yp and purged)

Question 31

stln terror

Answer 31

shakhty show trial (52 engineers - counter-revolutionary for decreased output) internal passports reintroduced 1932 purges of the red army from 1936 cheka gualgs show trials

Question 32

stln agriculture

Answer 32

collectivisation started 1928 scorched earth policies from 1941

Question 33

stln industry

Answer 33

start of 5 year plans in 1928 3rd 5 year plan 1941 focussed on rearmament

Question 34

stln society

Answer 34

used class warfare as a distraction not one step backwards 1942 an inspector called debuted in moscow 1945 brought back religion for war morale

Question 35

h.stln foreign affairs

Answer 35

increased soviet isolation korean war 1950 no satellite states allowed to access the marshal plan 1947 cominform berlin blockade caused disagreements in the party (malenkov vs zhadanov) ussr gets first atomic bomb 1949

Question 36

h.stln opposition

Answer 36

religious opposition due to persecution oppositon blocs set up individual diisidents nationalist movements economic non compliance all too weak and over purged to be a real threat

Question 37

h.stln terror

Answer 37

revival of terror post war prisoners of war sent to gulags to avoid idealogical contamination snitching society formed and rewarded to prove loyalty beria + nvkd strengthened terror was more exile and arrests not excecution leningrad case and arrest of the head of gosplan 1949 georgian purge against berias followers doctors plot 1952 - led to mass deportation of jewish

Question 38

h.stln agriculture

Answer 38

lagging behind in industry

Question 39

h.stln industry

Answer 39

comecon formed 1949 4th + 5th 5 year plan aiming to catch up and overtake the usa ussr became 2nd largest industrial capacity economy industry power stronger than pre war lots of heavy industry quotas were met devaluation of the rouble 1947 depleted savings national income increased 71%

Question 40

h.stln society

Answer 40

doctors plot heavily increased anti semitism within russia society of snitching encouraged

Question 41

kchv foreign affairs

Answer 41

cuban missile crisis 1962

Question 42

kchv opposition

Answer 42

anti party group 1957 stalinist backliners tried to oust khrushchev due to his support in the central committee, didnt work they all had to step down

Question 43

kchv terror

Answer 43

berias arrest + smear campaign 1953 bulganin accused of encouraging the anti party group and forced to resign against the arts that critciised him not just stalinism

Question 44

kchv agriculture

Answer 44

virgin lands scheme growing in virgin lands ended up being way more costly than beneficial 1963 harvest so bad ussr had to import from usa as well as growing more maize and collectivising farms bigger to make state farms but private plots contributed 30% of produce sold

Question 45

kchv industry

Answer 45

6th 5 year plan had too optimistic goals and was dropped after 2 years but did split the economic management into rural and urban 1962 and into 105 different regions to be managed

Question 46

kchv society

Answer 46

cultural thaw 55% of population were under 30, majority of them cynical about october revolution