Ideologies

Question 1

What slogan did all tsars use

Answer 1

Orthodoxy, autocracy and nationality

Question 2

Alexander II what were his ideologies like compared to his fathers

Answer 2

More liberal than his fathers

Question 3

Alexander II When did he relax censorship What did this mean

Answer 3

1865 and meant that he could be criticised

Question 4

Alexander II when were Zemstva created what were they and what did they do

Answer 4

1864, regional councils, Removed power from the tsar and handed it to the people

Question 5

Alexander II Who did he believe wanted him to be tsar

Answer 5

God

Question 6

Alexander III what did he blame his fathers assassination on

Answer 6

His liberal reforms

Question 7

Alexander III what did he do to his fathers liberal reforms and what happened as a result of this

Answer 7

reversed his fathers liberal reforms and censorship was stronger

Question 8

Alexander III why and when were land captains introduced

Answer 8

1889 Land captains introduced to assert authority over the Zemstva

Question 9

Alexander III when did he give the Okhrana more powers

Answer 9

1881

Question 10

Alexander III what opposition movement was repressed

Answer 10

the peoples will

Question 11

Nicholas II what was forced on Nicholas because of the Russo Japanese war and when was it

Answer 11

October manifesto in 1905

Question 12

Nicholas II what law reinforced autocracy and when was it made

Answer 12

the fundamental laws 1906 reinforced autocracy

Question 13

Nicholas II what did law 5 state

Answer 13

Stated that the supreme autocratic power belongs to the emperor of Russia

Question 14

Nicholas II what did the fundamental laws do to the Duma

Answer 14

turned the Duma into a talking shop

Question 15

Nicholas II who did he believe wanted him to be tsar

Answer 15

God and he believed his power was sanctioned by god

Question 16

Lenin What did Lenin think of Marxs theory about the dictatorship of the proletariat

Answer 16

He argued that this could not be done at the moment as the workers wouldn’t know how to run the country and there needed to be a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Question 17

Lenin what was Marxism Leninism

Answer 17

lenins interpretation of Marxism and it argued that the Bolsheviks needed to rule on behalf of the workers

Question 18

Lenin What was he able to do in order to stay in power

Answer 18

Change his ideologies (NEP and War Communism)

Question 19

Stalin what was Marxism leninism stalinism and what did he argue

Answer 19

stalins interpretation of marxism leninism. and it argued that you needed a cult of personality to stop infighting

Question 20

Stalin what type of economy did he introduce

Answer 20

a command economy totally controlled by the state

Question 21

Khrushchev what leadership did he use and between what dates

Answer 21

collective leadership from 1953-55

Question 22

Khrushchev when was destalinisation introduced and what did this do

Answer 22

destalinisation was in 1956 and prison camps were closed and towns were renamed

Question 23

Khrushchev what was he like in comparison to Stalin

Answer 23

less oppressive and had less of a cult of personality

Question 24

Khrushchev in what way was he similar to Stalin

Answer 24

crushed hungarian uprising in 1956