russia exam 28th feb

Question 1

basic points of nii government 9

Answer 1

famine, slumps, sr sd etc
zubatovs trade unions
russo japanese war
1905 revolution
october manifesto
dumas
1906-1914 increased militancy and supressed peasants
world war one
feb rev

Question 2

two examples of actions of ethnic minorities under nicholas ii reacting to anti-semitism

Answer 2

• by 1914, 1/4 had left russia
• pushed towards opposition groups eg martov, trotsky etc
  and stalin watched students being punished in georgia for lapsing into mother tongue

Question 3

which political group was disenfranchised after the vyborg manifesto

Answer 3

kadets

Question 4

2 examples of books workers were reading under alexander iii and then nicholas ii showing their increased readership was influential on opposition

Answer 4

aiii - social and political struggle 1883 g plekhanov
nii - what is to be done 1902 v lenin

Question 5

what stimulated the dismissal of trotsky in 1925

Answer 5

his declaration of 46 (complaining the party isn’t democratic) was condemned as factionalism

Question 6

what did lenin set up for youths

Answer 6

pioneers and komsomol

Question 7

what showed lenin was NOT anti-semitic/against jews

Answer 7

abolished anti semitic laws and gave national homeland

Question 8

what two things came at the end of lenins time for peasants, more stalin

Answer 8

ural-siberian method and labour camps

Question 9

how was rationing an economic failure in war communism

Answer 9

no incentive to produce grain
most malnourished

Question 10

how was the nationalisation of industry in war communism an economic failure

Answer 10

disrupted transport systems