results of russification

Question 1

the process of Russification was not accepted

Answer 1

without resistance

Question 2

June 1888 the department of police estimated how many mass disturbance

Answer 2

-estimated 332 cases of mass disturbance in 61 of Russia’s 92 provinces and districts

Question 3

in 51 of cases

Answer 3

the military was employed

Question 4

russification caused particular resentment among

Answer 4

the more educated and wealthy finns,poles and Baltic Germans in the West of the empire

Question 5

national groups constantly petitioned the tsars for

Answer 5

more liberties

Question 6

what did supporters of Russification genuinely believe

Answer 6

-they were acting for the greater good of Russia
-they believed it was necessary to ‘unite’ the country to improve its administration, to allow modernisation and reassert Russian strength

Question 7

historian peter Waldron says that

Answer 7

russification ‘failed to achieve its ends’ and ‘intensified national feeling among the non-russians of the empire’
-drove some of the wealthier citizens to emigrate and persuaded others who might otherwise have proved loyal to join political opposition groups