russification under Alexander III

Question 1

Alexander III and his ministers in particular who? engaged in what?

Answer 1

Pobedonostev engaged in a policy of ‘cultural russification’

Question 2

cultural russification

Answer 2

this sought to merge all the tsar’s subjects into a single nation with a feeling of shared identity

Question 3

the destruction of non-Russian national cultures particularly marked in?

Answer 3

Poland and Finland

Question 4

in Finland (1892)

Answer 4

the diet (parliament) was reorganised in order to weaken its political influence

Question 5

use of Russian language

Answer 5

now increasingly demanded

Question 6

the independent postal service was

Answer 6

abolished and Russian coinage replaced the local currency

Question 7

in Poland

Answer 7

-The Polish National Bank was closed in 1885
-in Polish schools and universities the teaching of all subjects except the polish language and religion had to be in Russian, even polish literature had to be studied in Russian translation

Question 8

Baltic Germans also found themselves subjects of particularly aggressive Russification- between 1885 and 1889 what was introduced?

Answer 8

measures were introduced to enforce the use of Russian in all state offices, elementary and secondary schools, the police force, and the judicial system

Question 9

even the German university if Dorpar was

Answer 9

Russified and became Iurev university(1889-93)

Question 10

in 1883 and 1884 what happened in Ukraine?

Answer 10

all the theatres in the five Ukrainian provinces

Question 11

business was entirely conducted in?

Answer 11

Russia

Question 12

what was encouraged everywhere?

Answer 12

adherence to the orthodox church was encouraged everywhere here with laws benefitting those of the orthodox church

Question 13

from 1883 members of non-orthodox churches

Answer 13

were not allowed to build new places of worship, wear religious dress except within their meeting place, or spread any religious propaganda