AII: REPRESSION & OPPOSITION

Question 1

What did provisional government have the power to do?

Answer 1

Counteract zemstva’s decisions.

Question 2

What did the zemstva provide?

Answer 2

Educational and public buildings.

Question 3

What did the zemstva have no control over?

Answer 3

The police.

Question 4

What were the Ministry of the Interior allowed to do in 1873?

Answer 4

Given the power to forbid certain topics from discussion.

Question 5

From 1874 to 1894 how many men learned the basics of reading and writing in the armed forces?

Answer 5

Between 2 and 3 million.

Question 6

What were reserves in the military raised from and to?

Answer 6

From 210,000 to 553,000.

Question 7

What did the industrial workforce expand to by 1887?

Answer 7

Expanded from 860,000 to 1,320,000.

Question 8

What did railways grow to?

Answer 8

Grew from 2,200 miles to 14,200 miles.

Question 9

Where was the turning point in which AII began to pass stricter reforms?

Answer 9

After the assassination attempt by Karakosov.

Question 10

Who were the populists?

Answer 10

Believed in the power of the people to bring about change in Russia.

Question 11

Who were the Intelligensia?

Answer 11

The educated, usually middle-class elites who believed in educational reform.

Question 12

Give three moderates…

Answer 12

1. Herzen
2. Pisarev
3. Lavrov

Question 13

Give two extremists…

Answer 13

1. Karakosov

2. Cheryshevsnsi

Question 14

Who are the moderates?

Answer 14

Intellegensia.

Question 15

Who are the extremists?

Answer 15

Terrorist/Revolutionary

Question 16

Who were two extremist groups?

Answer 16

The Naradonicks.

Land and Liberty.

Question 17

Who was Vera Zasulich?

Answer 17

Fired a revolver at General Trepov, the governor of St Petersburg.

Question 18

Who were the two groups of land and liberty?

Answer 18

Black Partition and People’s Will.

Question 19

What was the significance of Vera Zalsulich?

Answer 19

Acquitted in April 1878, despite all evidence. Never again would the government risk using open courts.

Question 20

Who was Herzen?

Answer 20

Moderate, edited influential periodical, The Bell.

Question 21

What was the ‘Chaikovsky Circle’?

Answer 21

Group of young revolutionaries dedicated to putting forward propaganda.

Question 22

Who was Bakunin?

Answer 22

Extremist who advocated for anarchy and believed in the superiority of the peasant.

Question 23

What did the People’s Will aim to do?

Answer 23

Employ terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Tsarism.

Question 24

How many assassination attempts were there on AII?

Answer 24

Five.

Question 25

What was the irony of the day AII was assassinated?

Answer 25

That day he signed a proclamation - the Loris-Melikov Constitution - that would've created two legislative commissions.

Question 26

What day was AII assassinated? At he hands of what group?

Answer 26

13th March 1881. People's Will.

Question 27

Who was appointed as Minister of Education? How was this a move towards repression?

Answer 27

Count Dimitri Tolstoy, placed disproportionate emphasis on the classics.

Question 28

Who was appointed as Head of the Third Section? How did this demonstrate a move towards repression?

Answer 28

Count Peter Shuvalov, dismissal of the progressives and replaced with conservatives.

Question 29

What year was the Polish Revolution?

Answer 29

1863.

Question 30

What was the debate around Poland?

Answer 30

Whether serfs in Poland should also be emancipated.

Question 31

What was the Polish revolution?

Answer 31

Number of mass meetings and demonstrations for partial independence.

Question 32

How many books were published in 1864?

Answer 32

1836.

Question 33

What did Russia experience in terms of censorship under AII?

Answer 33

Glasnost.

Question 34

Who were the chief proponents of the populist cause?

Answer 34

Chernyshevsky and Lavrov.