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What are the 2 largest cities in Russia?
At Petersburg and Moscow
What is the name of the process of ensuring the population of Russia
behave in a Russian manner?
Russification
What is the railway which allowed trade between the east and the west?
Trans-Siberian railway
Name 3 groups who opposed the Tsar ?
Liberals, Social Revolutionaries, Social
Democratic Party
What is the name of the Tsars secret police?
Okhrana
What were the two medium or long term causes of the 1905 revolution?
Economic problems, Russo-Japanese War
What was the “spark” for the 1905 revolution?
Bloody Sunday
What did the middle class people want?
Better political representation
What did the workers want?
Better working conditions.
What did the Tsar issue on 30th October 1905 under advice of Sergei Witte?
The October manifesto
What is the name of the Parliament set up by the Tsar?
Duma
Who was the longest serving Prime Minister of Russia from 1906-1911?
Pyotr stolypin