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Question 1

What year did Alexander III become Tsar?

Answer 1

1881

Question 2

How did Alexander III describe the proposals in the Loris-Melikov constitution?

Answer 2

Senseless dreams

Question 3

What is the name for the secret police in Alexander III’s reign?

Answer 3

Okhrana

Question 4

In what year were Land Captains introduced?

Answer 4

1889

Question 5

How were Land Captains chosen?

Answer 5

From a list chosen by the provincial nobility and approved by the provincial governor

Question 6

What did the 1890 zemstvo act do?

Answer 6

Brought the zemstva under direct central control

Question 7

Which finance minister created Land Banks?

Answer 7

Bunge

Question 8

Who replaced Bunge as finance minister?

Answer 8

Vyshnegradsky

Question 9

How much did grain exports increase between 1881 and 1891?

Answer 9

18%

Question 10

Give one example of a loan that Vyshnegradsky secured to help industry

Answer 10

France, 1888

Question 11

When was the famine, caused by Vyshnegradsky’s policy of exporting more grain?

Answer 11

1891-2

Question 12

When did Witte become finance minister?

Answer 12

1892

Question 13

Give four examples of economic policies of Witte

Answer 13

Protective tariffs, heavy taxation, forced exports, domestic loans

Question 14

Which ethnic group were targeted by the ‘May Laws’ in 1882?

Answer 14

Jews

Question 15

What was the name for systematic attacks on Jews?

Answer 15

Pogroms

Question 16

Give three other examples of how Jews were discriminated against by Alexander III.

Answer 16

Ghettos; limited access to education; excluded from participation in local government

Question 17

What was the name of Alexander III’s tutor?

Answer 17

Pobedonoststev

Question 18

What is the name for the policy of imposing Russian language, culture and values?

Answer 18

Russification

Question 19

Give three examples of places that Alexander III subjected to Russification

Answer 19

Poland, Ukraine, Baltic Provinces

Question 20

When did Alexander III die?

Answer 20

1 November 1894

Question 21

what ideology did the tsar’s believe in

Answer 21

autocratic divine right of kings

Question 22

Which war prompted Alexander II to free the serfs?

Answer 22

crimean war

Question 23

What was the date of the Emancipation Act?

Answer 23

march 3rd 1861

Question 24

How long did the serfs have to pay redemption payments for?

Answer 24

49 years

Question 25

What was the name of the village commune that took over some control from the landowners after the Emancipation act?

Answer 25

mir

Question 26

Which of the following was not part of Alexander II’s legal reforms: equality before the law, public hearings, abandonment of martial law, trial by jury.

Answer 26

martial law abandonment CHECK W/ TEACHER

Question 27

Which case in 1878 led Alexander II to stop open courts?

Answer 27

vera zasculich

Question 28

What kind of courts were peasant courts?

Answer 28

volost courts

Question 29

To the nearest thousand, how many miles of railway did Russia have by 1881?

Answer 29

56,000

Question 30

How much was conscription in the army reduced?

Answer 30

6 years service w/ 9 years reserve

Question 31

What year was a state bank set up?

Answer 31

1860

Question 32

What year was the Municipal Bank set up?

Answer 32

1862

Question 33

How far did the number of schools increase?

Answer 33

8,000 to 23,000 by 1880

Question 34

When were zemstva introduced?

Answer 34

1864

Question 35

When were dumas introduced?

Answer 35

1905 august

Question 36

Why did the Tsar intensify the backlash against reform after 1866?

Answer 36

austro Prussian war lost

Question 37

Who was appointed head of the Third Section in 1866?

Answer 37

Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov

Question 38

Who was appointed Minister of Education in 1866?

Answer 38

tolstoy