Key People

Question 1

Nicholas I

Answer 1

Tsar until 1855

Question 2

Alexander II

Answer 2

Reformer until 1888

Question 3

Alexander III

Answer 3

Reactionary until 1894

Question 4

Milyutin brothers

Answer 4

Dmitry and Nikolai reformed military and emancipation

Question 5

What was the liberal party

Answer 5

‘The party of St Petersburg progress’

Question 6

Witte

Answer 6

Author of October manifesto, prime minister, and minister of finance

Question 7

Von Reutern

Answer 7

growth rate up to 6%

Question 8

Vyshnegradsky

Answer 8

Responsible for great famine. 18% rise in grain and 30% import tariff

Question 9

Grand Duke Sergei

Answer 9

Assassinated in 1905

Question 10

Father Gapon

Answer 10

Led 150,000 to the Winter Palace

Question 11

Pobedonostsev

Answer 11

The black tsar

Question 12

Anna Akhmatova

Answer 12

Poet who victim to the zhdanovschina

Question 13

Members of the Anti Party Group under Khrushchev

Answer 13

Beria, Molotov, Malenkov

Question 14

Who were Khrushchev’s supporters that he rid himself of

Answer 14

Bulganin and Zhukov

Question 15

Who was Bulganin

Answer 15

Originally chairman of the council of ministers

Question 16

Who was Zhukov

Answer 16

A popular and powerful war leader.

Question 17

What was Molotov made ambassador of

Answer 17

Mongolia

Question 18

Who was Bukharin

Answer 18

A right wing dude

Question 19

Who was Struve

Answer 19

Chairman of the Union of liberation and wrote the Soviet manifesto

Question 20

Who was the spy for the SR

Answer 20

Yevno Azef

Question 21

Plekanhov

Answer 21

Leader of the Mensheviks

Question 22

The united opposition

Answer 22

Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 23

Kirov

Answer 23

Dude who died in 1934 and prevented Ryutin from being executed

Question 24

Ryutin

Answer 24

Ryutin manifesto

Question 25

Bogolepov

Answer 25

Assassinated and several thousand gathered

Question 26

Kerensky

Answer 26

Prime minster of the Provisional government

Question 27

Zhdanov

Answer 27

Groomed as Stalin's successor and responsible for the Zhadanovshchina

Question 28

Who were the leaders of the NKVD

Answer 28

YAGODA YEZHOV BERIA

Question 29

What did Yaogda develop

Answer 29

Labour camps of over 50,000

Question 30

What did Yezhov do

Answer 30

Kirov affair and death of Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 31

BERIA

Answer 31

freed 327,000 from Gulags and reviewed 1.5 million cases

Question 32

Alexandra

Answer 32

Nicholas's wife

Question 33

Mikhail Romas

Answer 33

populist who set up store

Question 34

Young russia

Answer 34

1862 burned 2000 shops