Russia

Question 1

How did Rasputin get involved with the royal family in Russia?

Answer 1

The Romanovs’s son Alexis had haemophilia and would suffer from painful bleeding so in 1907 the Tsarina called on Rasputin to see if he could heal him and it seemed that he was able to ease his pain

Question 2

Who was Rasputin?

Answer 2

He was presented as a holy man that could heal people but was also known as a drunken and womanizer

Question 3

Rasputin’s influence and issues over the Romanovs

Answer 3

-Would tell Tsarina about ministers he didn’t like and the Tsar would fire them
-Eased son’s pain from haemophilia
-When WW1 started Tsar took control of the army so left Tsarina in charge of Russia, Rasputin could easily manipulate her
-Rumours of Rasputin having affair with the Tsarina

Question 4

who was Leon Trotsky?

Answer 4

Leon Trotsky was a Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and politician

Question 5

What was the Tsar’s big mistake?

Answer 5

In 1915 he made a mistake of taking control of the army in WW1 when he was a bad ruler as is but also had no experience or knowledge of controlling an army, this also left Tsarina and Rasputin in Russia and he could be blamed for everything going wrong

Question 6

What happened in 1913?

Answer 6

They celebrated the Romanovs being in power for 300 years which a lot of the public felt patronage towards

Question 7

Russia in the WW1

Answer 7

They formed an alliance with Britain and there was some Patriotism, the russian army was big but they hadn’t advanced with their technology, they suffered defeats in Tannenburg and Masurian lakes and soldiers were treated badly the fought in pairs, one had boots and the other had a rifle

Question 8

WW1 impact on people

Answer 8

Peasants- They were forced to join the army so there was a shortage of farmers
City Workers- There were food shortages as the peasants had gone to fight so prices went up and people were starving to death

Question 9

When did Rasputin die?

Answer 9

He was murdered on the 16th December by a family member of the Romanovs who was aristocracy in attempt to save the monarchy but it was too late and now they could fully blame the Tsar

Question 10

how much of the population was peasants?

Answer 10

80 percent

Question 11

What does MIR mean?

Answer 11

A commune of shared out land strips

Question 12

What is serfdom?

Answer 12

a legal code granted landowners complete authority over the peasants who lived on their land

Question 13

when did serfdom end?

Answer 13

1861

Question 14

What is redemption payments?

Answer 14

when The government payed the landowners for freeing the peasants and then made the peasants pay it back

Question 15

Who is Witte?

Answer 15

Sergei Witte was an influential policy maker. He persuaded the Tsar to pass his October Manifesto. Issued in 1905, it promised significant political reform, although most of these promises were open to interpretation: A Duma (elected national parliament) was to be set up

Question 16

What are some reasons to oppose the Tsar?

Answer 16

1)There was censorship and they had no freedom of speech
2) Strict control by the okhrana the secret police
3) There was autocracy, being ruled by one person
4) Nicholas 2nd wasn’t a strong leader
5) There was no basic education

Question 17

What groups opposed the Tsar?

Answer 17

KADETS
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES

Question 18

Who are the social revolutionaries?

Answer 18

They believe in violence and assassinated 2 government officials and members of the okhrana

Question 19

who were the social democrats?

Answer 19

A small, disciplined party who followed the ideas of Karl Marx

Question 20

When did the social democrats split?

Answer 20

1903 they split into the Bolsheviks (majority) and the mensheviks (minority)

Question 21

who are the Kadets?

Answer 21

Middle class reformers who wanted more democracy

Question 22

Who is Plehve?

Answer 22

he told the Tsar to start a short victorious war against Japan in 1904 to make people feel more patriachal

Question 23

what happened in 1904?

Answer 23

the war with japan

Question 24

what happened in 1905?

Answer 24

Bloody sunday

Question 25

who lead the march on bloody sunday?

Answer 25

Father Gapon

Question 26

How did the Tsar survive the 1905 revolution?

Answer 26

With a mix of repression and reform
- he created a Duma
-ended the war with japan
- allowed free speech and right to form political parties
- wrote the october manifesto
- used force and crushed strikers and arrested people and exiled them to siberia

Question 27

What did the october manifesto say?

Answer 27

Promised a Duma, free speech, right to form political parties

Question 28

When did the Dumas close down?

Answer 28

First one closed in 1906 and second one in 1907 the third lasted from 1907 to 1912 as it was full of tsar’s supporters

Question 29

When was stolypin appointed priminister?

Answer 29

In 1906

Question 30

Who was peter stolypin and what did he do?

Answer 30

Appointed priminister in 1906 and came down harsh on strikers he had the nickname the hangman’s noose known as stolypin’s necktie as he hung over 1000 people and 21000 were exiled to siberia, he tried to get peasants on his side and set up the peasants land bank to supply government loans Kulaks would buy lots of land he also increased schools from 100,000 to 150,000

Question 31

what was one of stolypin’s mistakes?

Answer 31

He focused too much on peasants and not enough on city workers who had very poor conditions and were more likely to start a revolution as they lived in the city

Question 32

who were the kulaks?

Answer 32

Rich peasants that liked stolypin and bought a lot of land

Question 33

when was stolypin assassinated?

Answer 33

1911 was assassinated by a social revolutionary who felt he only helped the kulaks not poorer peasants

Question 34

what is the Petrograd soviet?

Answer 34

Had support of parts of the army

Question 35

what was the dual government?

Answer 35

when after the Tsar abdicated and they had to decide how ran the country so the provisional government and the petrograd soviet shared power which didn’t work

Question 36

Peace, land, bread Provisional government

Answer 36

They didn’t pull out of the war so there was no peace, they didn’t sort out the Peasant land reforms and supplies were prioritised for soldiers at war so there was not much food still