Russia In 1890's

Question 1

Russia was an

Answer 1

Autocracy

Question 2

Russian landscape

Answer 2

•Empty
•Enormous forests
• Mountains
•Rivers run from North to south

Question 3

Nobility

Answer 3

•1% of population but owned 25% of land
•Government is the tsar
•Made up of zeromtsvo (elected local councils)
~Made up of noblemen
•Okhrana secret police force for tsar

Question 4

Middle class

Answer 4

•Lacks large, well informed middle class
~Makes political change hard

Question 5

Population

Answer 5

•Barley half the population are Russian
•Uzbecks under rule of tsar
•15% of Russians live in towns or cities

Question 6

Peasants

Answer 6

•82% of population
•Mir (community) important for them
•Divide land in strips
•Look after each other
•Used natural remedies
•Have old traditions

Question 7

Church

Answer 7

•Most prominent building
• Onion shaped dome
• Russians extremely religious
•Obey the tsar as God chose him
•Church in charge of censorship - books and news papers
•Other faiths on edges of Russia

Question 8

Industrial workers

Answer 8

•5% of population
•Workers made to work as hard as possible for very little
• Profits go to foreign countries
•Employers don’t care about their working conditions
•Tsar doesn’t care about them
•Hold strikes
•Some are educated