the problem posed by ethnic minorities

Question 1

Russification meaning

Answer 1

Forcing everyone within the Russian empire to think of themselves as ‘Russian’ by enforcing the Russian language and culture

Question 2

Tsarist Russia population - what type of empire with how many different ethnic groups

Answer 2

• multi national empire with over 100 different ethnic groups
  Slavs in Russia,Ukraine,Belorussian comprised 2/3 of population

Question 3

Continual imperial expansion in Asia in the second half of the 19th century helped increase the Muslim population to?

Answer 3

ten million

Question 4

anti-semitic

Answer 4

being prejudiced against and persecuting jews

Question 5

pogrom

Answer 5

an old Russian word which means ‘round up’ or lynching, originally denouted an assault by one ethnic group on another but after 1881 it gained the special connotation of an attack on jews

Question 6

what posed as a continual challenge for the tsarist autocracy?

Answer 6

the diverse empire

Question 7

what provoked ethnic groups(including the Russian slavs) to assert their distinctive identities?

Answer 7

the development of national ideology

Question 8

national ideology meaning

Answer 8

a belief in the strength of one’s own country, languages, and traditions- this became a powerful force in Europe after the defeat of Napolean(1815) who tried to extend french influence across the continent

Question 9

what had surfaced and brought rebellion in the 1830?

Answer 9

polish nationalism

Question 10

what was set up in the 1840s?

Answer 10

a Finnish language pressure group was set up and local language newspapers were founded in the baltic regions

Question 11

what provoked a national consciousness that sought to separate Ukrainian salvs from their Russian counterparts

Answer 11

in Ukraine- the secret ‘brotherhood of saints cyril and Methodius’

Question 12

such aspirations were met by?

Answer 12

Russian determination to assert their national superiority