Chapter 7- Nicholas II And The Challenge To Autocracy

Question 1

What did Nicholas say about about god key aim when becoming tsar

Answer 1

‘To maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father’

Question 2

What happened at the start of Nicholas reign at Khodynka Field

Answer 2

1400 killed in a trample when celebrating his coronation

Question 3

How many students were killed and arrested in a St Petersburg rebellion quashing by Cossacks in February 1917

Answer 3

13 killed

1500 arrested

Question 4

What years were known as the ‘years of the red cockerel’

Answer 4

1902-1907

Question 5

How many more strikes were there in 1904 compared to 1894

Answer 5

73,000 (17-90)

Question 6

Why did a noose become known as Stolypins necktie

Answer 6

Because of how often peasants were executed on stolypins orders for rebelling

Question 7

How many members did the Assembly of the St Petersburg factory workers (trade union) have by 1904

Answer 7

8,000

Question 8

Who encouraged the war in Japan

Answer 8

Plehve

Question 9

What happened in Warsaw when plehve was killed in 1904

Answer 9

There were celebrations on the streets

Question 10

What did Nicholas say when faced with the suggestion of a constitution

Answer 10

‘I will never agree to the representative form of government because I consider it harmful to the people whom god has entrusted to me’

Question 11

How many workers were involved in the Putilov Iron works strike in 1905

Answer 11

150,000 workers

Question 12

What caused the Putilov Iron works strike

Answer 12

The defeat at port Arthur

Question 13

When was Bloody Sunday

Answer 13

9th January 1905

Question 14

How many were killed in Bloody Sunday and how many did the press say were killed

Answer 14

Press- 90

Real number- over 200

Question 15

How many people marched on Bloody Sunday

Answer 15

150,000

Question 16

Why did Nicholas agree to meet with the workers in February 1905

Answer 16

His uncle grand duke Sergei was killed

Question 17

What was Nicholas response to meeting with the workers

Answer 17

Replace more liberal Mirsky with conservatives Alexander Bulygin (minister of internal affairs) and Dmitry Trepov (military Governor of St Petersburg)

Question 18

What happened to the Russian Baltic fleet

Answer 18

Completely destroyed at Tsushima at the expense of 4 Japanese ships

Question 19

How many were killed at the mutiny on the Potemkin

Answer 19

7 officers

Question 20

When was the mutiny on the potemkin

Answer 20

June 1905

Question 21

What was the St Petersburg Soviet set up to do

Answer 21

Start a general strike in October 1905

Question 22

What did the general strike in octover 1905 lead to

Answer 22

October manifesto

Question 23

What did the October manifesto promise

Answer 23

To grant civic freedom (of speech, union, assembly etc)

To establish a duma

To give the duma power to establish laws

Question 24

What happened to the leaders of the St Petersburg Soviet after the October manifesto

Answer 24

Arrested and exiled to Siberia after trial

Question 25

What did a radical workers bulletin say about the October manifesto

Answer 25

‘We have been granted a constitution, yet autocracy remains. We have been granted everything, and yet we have been granted nothing’

Question 26

When were the fundamental laws established

Answer 26

23rd April 1906

Question 27

What did the fundamental laws include

Answer 27

The tsar has the right:

To veto legislation

To rule by decree in emergency or when the duma is but in session

To appoint and dismiss government ministers

To dissolve the Duma when he wished

Question 28

When was the first Duma

Answer 28

May-July 1906

Question 29

Who boycotted the first Duma and what did this mean

Answer 29

Bolsheviks, SR’s, Union of the Russian people (extreme RW)

This meant it was very radical-liberal

Question 30

What percentage of the members of the first Duma were peasants

Answer 30

1/3

Question 31

What was the consequences of the first Duma

Answer 31

Strongly critical of tsar

Witte fired

Question 32

Why was the second Duma even more left wing than the first

Answer 32

Bolsheviks and SR’s decided to participate

Question 33

When was the second Duma

Answer 33

February- June 1907

Question 34

When was the third Duma

Answer 34

1907-1912

Question 35

How many government proposals did the third Duma accept

Answer 35

2200 out of 2500

Question 36

Why was the Duma suspended in 1911

Answer 36

So the government could put through decrees without consulting it due to emergency circumstances

Question 37

What proves the fourth Duma was ignored

Answer 37

Prime minister Vladimir Kokovstov said ‘Thank god we done have a Parliament’ in 1914 as he completely ignored the Duma

Question 38

What did Stolypin introduce in 1906 to deal with disturbances in the countryside

Answer 38

Court martials

Question 39

How many people were executed between 1906-1909

Answer 39

3000

Question 40

how many were killed and injured at Bloody Sunday

Answer 40

96 killed

33 injured

Question 41

how many strikes were there in the first half of 1914

Answer 41

4,000

Question 42

what did Plehve say about the Russo-japanese war

Answer 42

‘a little victorious war to stem the tide of revolution’

‘distract the attention of the masses away from political questions’