PAC test questions

Question 1

What percentage had the population of St Petersburg and Moscow and increased by in the 1890’s?

Answer 1

25%

Question 2

When was the emancipation of the serfs?

Answer 2

1861

Question 3

What was the emancipation of the serfs?

Answer 3

Serfdom (a type of slavery) was made illegal (abolished)

Question 4

Why were peasants not happy after the emancipation?

Answer 4

They had to pay for land they felt was theirs

Question 5

What other major grievance did the peasants have due to increase in population?

Answer 5

Land hunger- there wasn’t enough land to go around

Question 6

What was autocracy?

Answer 6

One person has absolute power

Question 7

Why did some Russian people dislike autocracy?

Answer 7

There was no democracy so they didn’t have a say in the laws

Question 8

What were the three basic principals that Tsarism was based on?

Answer 8

Autocracy
Orthodoxy
Nationalism

Question 9

How did Russia supress other countries?

Answer 9

Made them speak Russian

Convert to Russian orthodoxy

Question 10

How were Jews treated in the 1880’s?

Answer 10

• No access to higher education
• Forced to live in certain area, pale settlement
• Banned from rural areas, forced into towns and cities
• Attacked (pograms)

Question 11

What was the Okhrana?

Answer 11

Russian secrete police

Question 12

What was the Zemstva?

Answer 12

Local town councils

Question 13

What were the workers abboyed about in the early 1900’s?

Answer 13

Poor pay and working/living conditions

Question 14

How many times did the army have to be called out to deal with strikes in 1901 and then in 1902?

Answer 14

1901 - 300