Summary

Question 1

As a result of events of bloody Sunday tsarist regime had

Answer 1

‘Modernised’ along Western lines by 1914

Question 2

What marked major advances

Answer 2

Introduction of the Dumas together with the economic policies of witte and stolyoin

Question 3

However Nicholas II never fully appreciated what?

Answer 3

Social + political consequences of economic modernisation
- wanted Russia to be a 20th century power to compete with the west but he himself disliked western civilisation - preferred old muscotive traditions

Question 4

Nicholas II autocracy was

Answer 4

Reactionary, oppressive - still inefficient

Question 5

While people or Russia became more urban, more educated and more politicised, what did Nicholas try to maintain

Answer 5

He tried to maintain the 17th century autocracy of the dynasty’s founder, Mikhail Romanov