Opposition: ideas & ideologies

Question 1

Who was Prince Lvov?

Answer 1

a wealthy landowner and liberal kadet leader

Question 2

Who attempted to set up an ‘All-Zemstvo Organisation?’

Answer 2

Ivan Shipov

Question 3

What happened to the attempted ‘All-Zemstvo Organisation?’

Answer 3

It was shut down immediately.

Question 4

What year was the Beseda Symposium set up?

Answer 4

1899

Question 5

What was the Beseda Symposium?

Answer 5

A group meeting up in secret to discuss matters of liberal interest.

Question 6

What year did the government dismiss hundreds of liberals from the Zemstvas?

Answer 6

1900

Question 7

Who founded the Union of Liberation?

Answer 7

Pyotr Struve

Question 8

What year was the Union of Liberation founded?

Answer 8

1903

Question 9

What did Pyotr Struve advocate?

Answer 9

a peaceful evolution

Question 10

What did the Union of Liberation do?

Answer 10

It held a grand meeting in 1904, at which representatives of the Zemstva were invited.

Question 11

When were the ideas of ‘agrarian socialism’ revived?

Answer 11

After the Great Famine 1891-92.

Question 12

What does the term ‘agrarian socialism’ mean?

Answer 12

Taking estates from landowners and dividing the land between the peasants to be farmed communally.

Question 13

What year was the Socialist Revolutionary Party founded?

Answer 13

1901.

Question 14

Who was the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s most influential theorist?

Answer 14

Viktor Chernov

Question 15

What ideas did the Socialist Revolutionary Party put forward?

Answer 15

That the wants and needs of the peasantry and the workers were identical and that they should work together.

Question 16

How was the Socialist Revolutionary Party similar to the earlier Populist organisation?

Answer 16

They tried to stir up discontent in the countryside and carry out political assassinations.

Question 17

How many political assassinations were carries out by the Socialist Revolutionary Party between 1901&1905?

Answer 17

2000

Question 18

What was the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s most ‘spectacular’ achievement?

Answer 18

The assassination of Prime Minister Stolypin in 1911.

Question 19

How many Socialist Revolutionaries were sentenced to death between 1905-9?

Answer 19

4579

Question 20

Which organisation emerged in 1898 as an amalgam of various Marxist groups?

Answer 20

Social Democratic Worker’s Party.

Question 21

What did the Social Democratic Worker’s Party believe about the future of Russia?

Answer 21

It would be the product of class struggles.

Question 22

When did The First Congress of the Social democratic Worker’s Party take place?

Answer 22

1898

Question 23

How many of the Social Democratic Worker’s party were arrested when the First Congress was broken up by Okhrana agents?

Answer 23

2

Question 24

Which major figure played a part in the development of the Social Democratic Worker’s Party?

Answer 24

Lenin

Question 25

What two groups did the Social Democratic Worker’s Party become divided into?

Answer 25

The Bolsheviks and The Mensheviks.

Question 26

What year did the Social Democratic Worker’s Party divide?

Answer 26

1903

Question 27

What year did Trotsky leave the Mensheviks to join the Bolsheviks?

Answer 27

1904

Question 28

How many Trade Unions were closed down as a result of the 1905 Revolution?

Answer 28

497

Question 29

When was the general strike in St. Petersburg?

Answer 29

July 1914

Question 30

What weakened Tsarist Opposition between 1905&1914?

Answer 30

Exile of Leaders, Divisions between parties, Secret Police Network, Industrial Depression, Patriotism during WWI.