Key Terms

Question 1

Autocratic

Answer 1

No limits on a ruler’s power

Question 2

Orthodox Church

Answer 2

Traditional beliefs and traditions in Russia

Question 3

Over-Procurator

Answer 3

Appointed by the Tsar from Iaity, this was the highest Church official

Question 4

Holy Synod

Answer 4

Group of bishops which forms the ruling body of the Orthodox Church
Highest authority on rules concerning the church

Question 5

Edict

Answer 5

An official order issued by a person of authority

Question 6

Provincial

Answer 6

Living away from the capital

Question 7

Localism

Answer 7

Loyalty to the local community or local area

Question 8

Civil servant

Answer 8

Someone working for the government

Question 9

Bureaucracy

Answer 9

A system of government in which many important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives

Question 10

Conscription

Answer 10

Mandatory enlistment of people to the military service

Question 11

Serf

Answer 11

People who are personal property of their owners (who were usually land owners)

Question 12

Military colony

Answer 12

Where the conscripts lived with their families and were trained

Question 13

Police state

Answer 13

A state in which the police monitor and control people and the activities which occur

Question 14

Entrepreneur

Answer 14

Someone who invests money to set up a business despite financial risks

Question 15

Cottage industry

Answer 15

Work done in the owners home or small workshop (typically spinning/weaving etc) and occasionally whole villages specialised in a specific trade

Question 16

Internal market demand

Answer 16

The desire and ability to buy the products of manufacturing within the country they were made
If the country’s inhabitants were poor the demand is low

Question 17

Landowning elite

Answer 17

Those who owned land

Privileged minority in Russia

Question 18

Capital accumulation

Answer 18

Building up money reserves in order to invest

Question 19

Mortgage

Answer 19

Involves borrowing money by providing a guarantee (e.g. A landowners serfs provided the guarantee for a state loan and if this was not paid (including interest) the serfs would be seizure by the state)

Question 20

Urban artisan

Answer 20

Manual worker in a town who possessed skills (e.g cobbler)

Question 21

Intelligentsia

Answer 21

Educated members of Russian society

Many opposed the state

Question 22

Emancipation

Answer 22

Freeing from bondage

Question 23

Enlightened deposition

Answer 23

A system of government in which the ruler allows its people grants domestic reforms for beneficial reasons

Question 24

Kulak

Answer 24

A prosperous landed peasant

Question 25

Redemption payment

Answer 25

Serfs were required to pay money in order to gain their complete freedom

Question 26

Ecclesiastical courts

Answer 26

This was a church court where punishments were in the hands of priests

Question 27

Military courts

Answer 27

In these courts army officers award the sentences

Question 28

Reaction

Answer 28

Implies actions and policies that are backward looking in an attempt to restore the past

Question 29

Reactionaries

Answer 29

Those who support reaction

Question 30

Civil society and rule of law

Answer 30

Key concepts of a democratic society

All members of society enjoy the protection of laws which are applied equally and fairly

Question 31

Show trial

Answer 31

A trial that took place in front of the general public

Usually for propaganda purposes

Question 32

Constitution

Answer 32

Set of rules by which a country is governed