Russia

Question 1

Size and communication

Answer 1

640,000km from west to east and span across 2 continents
Most roads are mud
Transiberian railway from Moscow to Glasnost

Question 2

The Russian people

Answer 2

19 different ethnicities

Majority Russian 55 million and many Ukrainian Polish and Jewish

Question 3

Social structure

Answer 3

77% population peasants
No middle class and massive economic divide

Question 4

Nobility

Answer 4

The 1% owned 25% of the land they lived in St Petersburg or Moscow and have important roles in the government and army

Question 5

Middle-class

Answer 5

Small mostly merchant and bankers

Question 6

Peasants

Answer 6

Difficult life long hours and poor conditions and wages

Question 7

Urban workers

Answer 7

Most workers were young and male and ex-peasants
1897 census showed literacy of workers was 57.8% twice the national average
Women worked in textiles
High number of work-related deaths

Question 8

Government

Answer 8

Autocracy
Supreme power for the Tsar
Rigid hierarchy

Question 9

Nicholas the second

Answer 9

Wasn’t prepared for the role due to death
Weak
Jew hater
Family man

Question 10

Church

Answer 10

Orthodox church developed its own traditions and customs including mysticism and superstition Gregory Rasputin help the Russian Revolution the church supported the divine right of the tsar and was a Conservative organisation

Question 11

Modernisation

Answer 11

Needed more military power as Russia was poor

It made it difficult to maintain tsarist autocracy due to growth in the middle classes

Question 12

Witte’s policies & problems

Answer 12

Wanted industrialisation to improve communication lies and railways between cities he negotiated foreign investments particularly from finance increase state taxes and taxes on products workers still have poor wages