Introduction Info

Question 1

When was the Bloody Sunday massacre which lead to revolutionary upheavals

Answer 1

1905 January

Question 2

When was the St.Petersburg Soviet formed and the Tsars October Manifesto authorised elections to a state Duma?

Answer 2

1905 October

Question 3

When were the ‘Fundamental laws’ which reaffirmed the autocracy?

Answer 3

1906 April

Question 4

When was the programme of agrarian reform attempted ?

Answer 4

1906-11

Question 5

When did the 4 state Dumas meet although influence controlled ?

Answer 5

1906-15

Question 6

When was the Lena Gold Fields Massacre (which renewed industrial unrest)?

Answer 6

1912

Question 7

What was the new revolutionary newspaper Lenin founded in 1902?

Answer 7

Iskra

Spark

Question 8

In 1903 what did the Social Democras split into?

Answer 8

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Question 9

When did Lenin go and come out of exile?

Answer 9

1898- 1917

Except from a brief return in st Petersburg in October 1905

Question 10

What is the zemstva

Answer 10

Elected councils responsible for the local administration of provincial districts

Question 11

What is the Okrana

Answer 11

The Russian secret police - the department of protecting public security and order

Question 12

What is bureaucracy?

Answer 12

The states administrative officials