Opposition - Key Facts

Question 1

Number of Poles that had joined in creating an underground national government

Answer 1

200,000+

Question 2

Nihilism

Answer 2

The belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known nor communicated

Question 3

Anarchism

Answer 3

The belief in self-government - the state is unnecessary or even harmful

Question 4

Westernisers

Answer 4

Wanted to catch up to the West

Question 5

Slavophiles

Answer 5

Favoured the ‘superior’ Russian path

Question 6

Nikolai Chernyshevsky wrote …

Answer 6

• The Contemporary
• What is to be done?

Question 7

Aleksandr Nerzen wrote the journal …

Answer 7

The Bell

Question 8

Name of the person who translated Karl Marx’s ‘The Communist Manifesto’

Answer 8

Mikhail Bukunin

Question 9

Mikhail Bukunin and Sergei Nachev wrote …

Answer 9

Catechism of a Revolutionary

Question 10

Number of members of the Tchaikovsky circle

Answer 10

100

Question 11

Narodyism

Answer 11

Populism - the idea of ‘going to the people’

Question 12

Number of peole that went to the countryside in 1874

Answer 12

2,000

Question 13

Number of people that were arrested after going to the countryside in 1874

Answer 13

1,600

Question 14

Number of shops detroyed in the fires Young Russia were blamed for

Answer 14

2,000

Question 15

Name of the person Land and Liberty assassinated in 1878

Answer 15

General Mezemstev

Question 16

Name of the groups Land and Liberty split into

Answer 16

• Black Repartition
• The People’s Will

Question 17

Leader of Black Repartition

Answer 17

Georgi Plekhanov

Question 18

Leader of The People’s Will

Answer 18

Aleksandr Mikhailov