Alex III Oppostion

Question 1

How could you describe Alex III’s rule

Answer 1

Repressive

Question 2

What was the secret police called

Answer 2

The Okhrana

Question 3

What happened to People’s Will

Answer 3

Heavily Suppressed
150 members arrested

Question 4

In what year was the People’s Will reformed

Answer 4

1886

Question 5

What happened to People’s Will after 1887

Answer 5

Reduced membership and activities due to police activity and a lack of enthusiasm from the peasantry

Question 6

What year was The Great Famine

Answer 6

1891-92

Question 7

What did many radical revolutionaries do during The Great Famine

Answer 7

Turned to humanitarian work to help the starving peasants rather than pursuing radical politics

Question 8

What did The Great Famine highlight

Answer 8

Government failure - need for significant change to the rural economy

Question 9

What party did populist ideas lead to

Answer 9

The Socialist Revolutionary Party

Question 10

What year was the Socialist Revolutionary Party formed

Answer 10

1901

Question 11

Who translated and sent Marx’s writing into Russia

Answer 11

Plekhanov

Question 12

What group did Plekhanov form in 1883? What did it later become?

Answer 12

The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Question 13

What year was The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party formed?

Answer 13

1898

Question 14

What is Plekhanov referred to as

Answer 14

The ‘Father of Russian Marxism’

Question 15

In the late 1880s and 1890s what was the extent of Marxist opposition

Answer 15

Limited - small cells in major cities

Question 16

What did Marxist groups reject in the early 1890s? What did they focus on?

Answer 16

The use of terror (said it was counterproductive)

Concentrated on propaganda and industrial action

Question 17

What created resentment against the Tsar

Answer 17

Repression

Failure in The Great Famine

Russification