Discontent

Question 1

Red cockerel years

Answer 1

1903-07 arson incidents across rural communities and attacks on landlords

Spread to Poland, Georgia and Ukraine

Stolypin used brutal force - made it worse
Wiping, arrests, imprisonment and shot/hung

Industrial strikes 1894=17,000 - 1904=90,000

Question 2

State trade unions

Answer 2

Set up in Moscow to keep complaints in proper channels

E.g. Assembly of St P factory workers - Gapon formed it, soon 8,000 members (had Okrana support)

Closed in 1903 (all state unions) after one of the unions was involved in a general strike

Question 3

Russo-Japanese war reasons

Answer 3

Meant to be quick victory to boost morale and stop unrest

With railways they had already been expanding east into China

Russia had a 25yr lease on Port Arthur

1890 visit meant Tsar thought he was an expert+assassination attempt left resent for east

Question 4

Russo-Japanese war was effects

Answer 4

6,000 miles away = logistics nightmare

Trans-Siberian was single tracked (really slow for supplies)

Japanese took port Arthur = large anger at home; 150,000 workers at St P striked

Plehve killed 1904 and people celebrated calling for constitutional monarchy

Question 5

Great Famine

Answer 5

1891-2
Government couldn’t deal with it (bureaucratic)

Zemstva+other voluntary groups helped instead - people angry at tsar and firmer belief in ordinaries conducting national affair

Question 6

Universities/students

Answer 6

Around 1900 rebellious student action increased - Okrana expelled, exiled or drafted students to keep them in line

1901 Cossacks charged student crowd in St P -13 dead 1500 imprisoned

Question 7

Nich II on zemstva power sharing

Answer 7

‘I will never agree to the representative form of government’