Alexander III Coming to Power (quiz #3)

Question 1

How old was Alexander III when he came to power in Russia?

Answer 1

36

Question 2

When did Alexander III come to power in Russia?

Answer 2

In 1881, after Alexander II’s death

Question 3

When did Alexander III become the hier?

Answer 3

1865 after his older brother died

Question 4

What sort of physical embodiment was Alexander III said to have?

Answer 4

That of traditional Russia

Question 5

What was Alexander III’s beard a sign of?

Answer 5

A traditional Tsar

Question 6

What was Alexander III viewed as?

Answer 6

A conservative reactionary

Question 7

What was Alexander III contrasted to his father as?

Answer 7

The repressive opposite

Question 8

What did Alexander III’s father’s death reinforce in Alexander III?

Answer 8

conservatism

Question 9

What did Alexander III blame his father’s death on?

Answer 9

The reforms

Question 10

Who was one of Alexander III’s greatest influence?

Answer 10

Konstantin Pobedonostev

Question 11

What was Konstantin Pobedonostev a perspective critic of?

Answer 11

Western values

Question 12

What did Konstantin Pobedonostev believe liberalism offered?

Answer 12

Only illusory freedoms

Question 13

What were threats to Konstantin Pobedonostev?

Answer 13

opposition, freedom of press, constitutions

Question 14

What religion did Konstantin Pobedonostev support?

Answer 14

Orthodox church

Question 15

Who was Konstantin Pobedonostev to Alexander III?

Answer 15

his tutor, elder, and intellectual superior

Question 16

What did Alexander III do after his father’s assassination?

Answer 16

Executed assassins, arrested 10 000 suspected opponents

Question 17

What did Alexander III reintroduce?

Answer 17

censorship

Question 18

What plans were scrapped immediately by Alexander III?

Answer 18

His father’s constitution plans and reforms

Question 19

What were Alexander III’s early actions given formal shape in?

Answer 19

his “Manifesto of Unshakeable Autocracy”

Question 20

What motto did Alexander III take?

Answer 20

“Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality”

Question 21

What group of people was Alexander III unpopular with because of his manifesto?

Answer 21

educated population

Question 22

Who was one of the important liberal government ministers who resigned in protest to Alexander III?

Answer 22

Loris-Melikov

Question 23

What did Alexander III introduce that had the power to overrule zemstva?

Answer 23

Land Captains

Question 24

When were Land Captains introduced?

Answer 24

1889

Question 25

Who were Land Captains?

Answer 25

Nobility

Question 26

What did new laws do introduced in 1890 and 1892?

Answer 26

Alter electorate, reduce popular vote in rural and urban elections

Question 27

What did some peasants fear with the introduction of Land Captains and other repressive reforms?

Answer 27

the reintroduction to serfdom

Question 28

When and where were peasants banned to leave?

Answer 28

1893, mirs

Question 29

What gave the government more power to persue revolutionaries in 1881?

Answer 29

the Statute of State Security

Question 30

What could the state declare any part of Russia under with the Statute of State Security and what did this mean for these areas?

Answer 30

“extraordinary protection” - meant they could ban public gatherings, close schools and universities, charge individuals for political crimes

Question 31

What were the secret police given the power to do?

Answer 31

imprison suspected opponents of state without trial

Question 32

When did the Okhranka exist?

Answer 32

1881-1917

Question 33

What was the Okhranka?

Answer 33

prerevolutionary Russian secret police

Question 34

What was the Okhranka founded to do?

Answer 34

Combat political terrorism and left-wing revolutionary activity

Question 35

What is russification?

Answer 35

Identifying as Russian before anything else (religion, culture, traditions, language…)