Opposition

Question 1

What was the name of Alexander III’s secret police?

Answer 1

Okhrana

Question 2

How many newspapers were closed in the period 1882-1889?

Answer 2

14

Question 3

What set of laws increased the powers of the government to deal with opposition?

Answer 3

Statute of State Security

Question 4

How did Alexander III control the zemstvo?

Answer 4

Introduction of Land Captains

Question 5

In what year were universities temporarily closed due to student protests?

Answer 5

1889

Question 6

The elder brother of which future revolutionary leader was executed for his part in a plot to assassinate Alexander III?

Answer 6

Lenin

Question 7

What policy was introduced to control Russia’s ethnic and national minorities?

Answer 7

Russification

Question 8

What were the May Laws, 1882?

Answer 8

Anti-Semitic laws banning Jews from certain areas and professions.

Question 9

What was a “pogrom”?

Answer 9

State encouraged attacks on Jews

Question 10

In what year was Russian made the official language of the entire Russian Empire?

Answer 10

1885