Russian Revolution

Question 1

Tsar

Answer 1

The ruler of the Russian Russia (emperor)

Question 2

Autocracy

Answer 2

One leader with no opposition

Question 3

Serfs

Answer 3

Farmer workers, the poorest of Russia, (different from peasants)

Question 4

Communes

Answer 4

The “villages” the serfs lived in

Question 5

Emancipation

Answer 5

Given freedom, from peasants to serfs

Question 6

Liberalism

Answer 6

Believed in western constitutional practices to solve problems in Russian Society

Question 7

Socialists

Answer 7

Hoped to create a classless society

Question 8

Nobles

Answer 8

Land owners

Question 9

Industrialisation

Answer 9

A period of social and ecomonical change from an agrarian society to an industrial one

Question 10

Populist

Answer 10

A member of a political party aimed to represent the ordinary people

Question 11

Russification

Answer 11

Making Russian in character

Question 12

Tsar Alexander II

Answer 12

The tsar liberator

Question 13

Tsar Alexander III

Answer 13

Son of Alexander II, our of fear changed all his fathers work ( opposite affect on Russia as ruler)

Question 14

1891 Famine

Answer 14

Bad crops led to the death of thousands of peasants