Chapter 6- Stolypin Repression And Reform

Question 0

How many government officials were murdered in terrorist attacks in 1907?

Answer 0

1200

Question 1

When was stolypin chairman of the council of ministers?

Answer 1

1906-1911

Question 2

How many death sentences did stolypin allow field marshals to hand out between October 1906 and may 1907?

Answer 2

1144

Question 3

How many newspapers were forced to cease publication between 1906 and 1912?

Answer 3

1000

Question 4

When were six hundred trade unions forced to close?

Answer 4

Between 1906 and 1912

Question 5

During 1907 and 1909 stolypins courts convicted 16,500 people of political crimes. How many people were sentenced to death, and how many to hard labour?

Answer 5

3600 to death

4500 to hard labour

Question 6

What did the number of political assassinations fall to in 1908?

Answer 6

365

Question 7

What did the law of 9 November 1906 do? (Stolypin)

Answer 7

It freed peasants from the control of the commune

Question 8

What was the peasant land bank instructed to do on the 15th of November 1906?

Answer 8

Give loans to peasants who wanted to leave the communes

Question 9

When were redemption payments abolished?

Answer 9

New Year’s Day 1907

Question 10

When were all communes where no land had been redistributed since emancipation dissolved?

Answer 10

June 1910

Question 11

How many peasants had ownership of their own land in 1905 and 1915?

Answer 11

1905-20%

1915-50%

Question 12

What happened to agricultural production from 1906 to 1913?

Answer 12

It rose from 45.9 million tonnes to 61.7 million tonnes.

Question 13

When did the Lena goldfield massacre occur?

Answer 13

1912 in Siberia. Strikers killed by police

Question 14

When was the first Duma established?

Answer 14

April 1906

Question 15

How long did the first Duma last?

Answer 15

72 days

Question 16

What was the nickname of the first Duma?

Answer 16

The Duma of public anger

Question 17

Who boycotted the elections of the first Duma?

Answer 17

The SR and Bolsheviks

Question 18

Why was the first Duma dissolved?

Answer 18

After trying to introduce reforms for land and the release of political prisoners,they were refused, the Duma passed a vote of no confidence in the Russian prime minister Ivan Goremykin.

Question 19

How many requests did the first Duma make?

Answer 19

391, only 2 were passed

Question 20

What was the Vyborg Manifesto?

Answer 20

After the first Duma was dissolved, a group of its deputies tried to convince the people to resist the Tsars action by refusing to pay their taxes

Question 21

What happened because of the Vyborg manifesto?

Answer 21

200 deputies were banned from standing for the next Duma

Question 22

How long did the second Duma last?

Answer 22

3 months (February- June 1907)

Question 23

What did the second Duma strongly criticise?

Answer 23

The administration of the army, angering the tsar. This caused him to have the police frame radical members of the Duma for trying to encourage mutinies

Question 24

When was the third Duma?

Answer 24

November 1907-June 1912

Question 25

What was the third Dumas nickname?

Answer 25

The Duma of lords and lackeys

Question 26

When was the fourth Duma?

Answer 26

November 1912-august 1914

Question 27

Who could vote in the third and fourth Dumas?

Answer 27

Only the richest 30% of the male population

Question 28

What were the successes of the third and fourth Dumas?

Answer 28

They introduced land captains
They introduced a plan to have universal primary education in ten years
Health and accident insurance program’s were introduced for industrial workers
Improvements were made to the army and navy