Alexander 11

Question 1

When was the emancipation of the Serfs?

Question 2

When and why did Poland become under the power of the Tsars?

Answer 2

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815

Question 3

What percentage of the population did the peasants make up?

Answer 3

85%

Question 4

What reforms did Alexander 11 make?

Answer 4

• relaxed censorship.

Question 5

Why did the Crimean war happen?

Answer 5

A war about who would control the Ottoman Empire.

Question 6

what did the Crimean war highlight about Russia?

Answer 6

There was a lack of modernised equipment to fight war such as wooden ships etc.

Question 7

what opposition did Alexander 11 face?

Answer 7

• Nihilism, Chernyshevsky ‘’what is to be done.’’ Where the peasants are the revolutionary class.
  Populism, Lavrov led 2000 people to ‘’go to the people’’ which aimed to stir up resentment.

Question 8

Who killed Alexander 11 and when?

Answer 8

People’s will in 1881.

Question 9

What percentage of men died in the battle of Balaclava in 1854?

Answer 9

70%

Question 10

What were the redemption payments?

Answer 10

• 49 annual payments at 6 percent interest.
• had to remain in a Mir till paid.

Question 11

What were the government subsidies given out for?

Answer 11

To develop and expand railways

Question 11

When and what was the Milyutin plan?

Answer 11

!864, polish nobility were exiled to Siberia