Alexander III

Question 1

Alex III’s nickname?

Answer 1

Tsar Repressor

Question 2

What were land captains?

Answer 2

Members of the gentry chosen to control the peasants - their power superseded the Mir

Question 3

What did Alex III do to universities?

Answer 3

Centralised them and brought strict controls on them, reducing student freedom

Question 4

What did Alex III do to uni fees?

Answer 4

x4

Question 5

Decree restricting access to education under Alex III?

Answer 5

1887 decree to prevent children from humble backgrounds being ‘encouraged to abandon the social environment to which they belong’

Question 6

How many students at the end of Alex IIIs rule?

Answer 6

16,500

Question 7

What % of the population could vote under Alex III?

Answer 7

0.7% of the population in Moscow and st Petersburg

Question 8

Manifesto on unshakeable autocracy?

Answer 8

1881

Question 9

When was the Zemstva act under Alexander III?

Answer 9

1890

Question 10

What did the Zemstva act do?

Answer 10

Reduced Zemstvas powers and independence, centralising gov control

Question 11

How many executions under Alex III?

Answer 11

44

Question 12

What was the Okhrana?

Answer 12

Secret police from 1881

Question 13

When was lenins brother hung?

Answer 13

1887

Question 14

Growth of Russia’s economy pa in the 1890s?

Answer 14

8% pa

Question 15

When was witte appointed finance minister?

Answer 15

1892

Question 16

Who did witte convince to invest in Russian industry?

Answer 16

Foreign investors eg France and Belgium

Question 17

When were the trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern railways built?

Answer 17

1892-1904

Question 18

Railways built between 1892 and 1904?

Answer 18

Trans-Siberian and Chinese-Eastern

Question 19

Factory legislations under Alex III?

Answer 19

Restricted hours of work and prevented women and children from working

Question 20

Famine under Alex III?

Answer 20

1891

Question 21

% of national minorities in population under Alex III?

Answer 21

55

Question 22

Interior minister responsible for Russification?

Answer 22

Plehve

Question 23

Series of pogroms broke out in…

Answer 23

1881

Question 24

How many decrees against Jews in 1881?

Answer 24

600

Question 25

What decrees against Jews in 1881?

Answer 25

Preventing Jews from voting, entry to education etc.

Question 26

Deportation of foreign Jews under Alex III in…

Answer 26

1890

Question 27

Deportation of Jews from Moscow?

Answer 27

1891, 2000

Question 28

Provisional or temporary rules were passed in…

Answer 28

1882

Question 29

Provisional or temporary rules banned Jews from…

Answer 29

Settling in rural areas, owning or managing land, having right of appeal, marrying a Christian, holding any administrative office, etc.

Question 30

Land captains replaced justices of the peace in…

Answer 30

1889