Russian Vocab 2

Question 0

Liberal

Answer 0

A person who believes in key freedoms e.g. Freedom of speech, press and assembly

Question 1

Haemophilia

Answer 1

A disease that means the blood doesn’t clot. If you get a cut you will keep bleeding.

Question 2

Potemkin

Answer 2

The name of a battleship whose crew mutinied in protest over their working conditions

Question 3

Mutiny

Answer 3

When the ship’s crew refuse to follow the orders of the Captain as a protest

Question 4

General strike

Answer 4

A strike organised across the major industries in a country

Question 5

Soviet

Answer 5

A socialist council of elected representatives

Question 6

October Manifesto

Answer 6

A list of political reforms promised by the tsar after the 1905 revolution

Question 7

Reform

Answer 7

A change to the tsar’s power granting more political rights to the people

Question 8

Constitution

Answer 8

A set of rules by which a country is governed

Question 9

Redemption payments

Answer 9

Money that peasants had to pay following the abolition of serfdom (the ownership of peasants by their landowners)