Knowledge Test 1: Russia 1891-1905

Question 1

Name the four preconditions of revolution.

Answer 1

Emancipation of the Serfs, Nationalism, Industrialisation and Population Explosion.

Question 2

In what year were the serfs emancipated?

Answer 2

1861.

Question 3

What was the family name of the Tsar?

Answer 3

Romanov.

Question 4

What word is used to describe the way the Tsars ruled?

Answer 4

Autocratic.

Question 5

What was the aim of Russification?

Answer 5

To ensure that all countries within the Russian Empire lived a similar culture and lifestyle.

Question 6

What effect could Russification have on the people of the Empire?

Answer 6

Rise to nationalism.

Question 7

What word is used to describe an attack against Jewish people?

Answer 7

Pogrom.

Question 8

What role did the organisation known as the Okhrana play?

Answer 8

They served as informants for the Tsar.

Question 9

Name 4 different opposition groups/parties.

Answer 9

League of Liberation, Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and Kadets.

Question 10

Whose ideas influenced Lenin?

Answer 10

Karl Marx.

Question 11

Who was Paul Milyukov?

Answer 11

He was the leader of the League of Liberation.

Question 12

Who was Sergei Witte?

Answer 12

Minister of the Interior.

Question 13

Who does the term Proletariat refer to?

Answer 13

The working-class.

Question 14

Which country did Russia go to war with in 1904?

Answer 14

Japan.

Question 15

What was the name of the naval battle which took place in May 1905?

Answer 15

Mukden.

Question 16

Name two consequences of the Treaty of Portsmouth?

Answer 16

1) Agreed not to invade Manchuria in the future.

2) It recognised Korea as within Japan’s sphere of influence.

Question 17

Who organised Bloody Sunday?

Answer 17

Father Gapon.

Question 18

In front of which building did the troops fire on the demonstrators?

Answer 18

Winter Palace.

Question 19

What was the St Petersburg Soviet?

Answer 19

It was a Soviet council which was formed to represent workers within the city of St. Petersburg.

Question 20

Which key figure led the Soviet?

Answer 20

Trotsky.

Question 21

In which months were manifestos issued in 1905?

Answer 21

April and October.

Question 22

What were the ‘Black Hundreds’?

Answer 22

The people who led the Pogroms.