Alexander II

Question 1

Alex II ruled from…

Answer 1

1855-81

Question 2

The emancipation edict was in…

Answer 2

1861

Question 3

Number of students rose…

Answer 3

From 3,600 to 10,000

Question 4

Press were allowed to discuss government policy from…

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

When was the Zemstva created?

Answer 5

1864

Question 6

How many peasant uprisings in the first year of the emancipation?

Answer 6

647

Question 7

How many serfs freed in the emancipation?

Answer 7

50 million

Question 8

What happened to unis in the late 1860s?

Answer 8

Police supervision became more intensive

Question 9

When was the first assassination attempt on Alex II?

Answer 9

1866

Question 10

What did Alex II do to leading radical journals?

Answer 10

Closed them

Question 11

What was the Zemstva?

Answer 11

A diluted form of local government and democracy which empowered the people

Question 12

What did the zemstvas provide?

Answer 12

Roads, schools, medical services

Question 13

The Mir…

Answer 13

Collected redemption payments and dealt with court cases and peasant passports

Question 14

Secret police under Alex II?

Answer 14

The third section

Question 15

When was the expansion of the railway network?

Answer 15

1866

Question 16

Population increase in cities between 1861-81?

Answer 16

30%

Question 17

30% population increase in cities between…

Answer 17

1861-81

Question 18

Increase in pig-iron between 1861-81?

Answer 18

50%

Question 19

Increase in iron and steel output between 1861-81?

Answer 19

3x

Question 20

Increase in coal output between 1861-81?

Answer 20

10x

Question 21

Increase in oil output between 1861-81?

Answer 21

Exponential

Question 22

Moderate cultural policy until…

Answer 22

1863 Polish Revolt

Question 23

What happened to the Jews in the 1870s?

Answer 23

Closed Jewish schools, restrictions on their civil rights

Question 24

When was the trial of the 193?

Answer 24

1877-8

Question 25

1877-8 trial?

Answer 25

Trial of the 193 in st Petersburg

Question 26

1877 trial?

Answer 26

Trial of the 50, Moscow

Question 27

When was the trial of the 50?

Answer 27

1877

Question 28

Alexander II’s assassin?

Answer 28

Hessia Helfman, extremist

Question 29

Extremist groups during Alex II?

Answer 29

Narodnaya Volya (the peoples will), black partition, land and liberty, he’ll

Question 30

Leader of the peoples will?

Answer 30

Sophia perovskaya

Question 31

Moderate groups during Alex II?

Answer 31

The populists (narodniks)

Question 32

How many mk of railway built 1855-81?

Answer 32

134,000

Question 33

What was Alex II called?

Answer 33

The tsar liberator