Imperial Russia

Question 1

How were Polish people prevented from reasserting Polish nationalism from 1848-1849?

Answer 1

Russian troops suppressed their attempts

Question 2

What was the result of Russia getting involved in the Crimean War?

Answer 2

Russia was defeated

Question 3

What was “nihilism?”

Answer 3

Rejected romantic illusions and instead favored rugged realism

Question 4

The Russian Populist Movement pushed what notion?

Answer 4

Inevitability and desirability of a social and economic revolution

Question 5

People of the Russian Populist Movement were _______ by Alexander II.

Answer 5

Executed

Question 6

The emergency of the “Russian Social Democrats” and the “Russian Social Revolutionaries” came out of what?

Answer 6

Opposition to the Czarist government in Russia

Question 7

Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks (1903-1912)?

Answer 7

Lenin

Question 8

How were the Bolsheviks characterized?

Answer 8

a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917. – MAJORITY

Question 9

How were the Mensheviks (1904) characterized?

Answer 9

Minority’s group that believed there needed to be a bourgeoise revolution first before working class could come to class consciousness; opposed idea of vanguard party.