Topic 1- Dissent And Revolution 1917- Context

Question 1

Quote to suggest disappointment over empancipatioon of the serfs

Answer 1

‘Failed to improve the material conditions of the former serfs’ ‘worse off than they were before the emancipation’
Russian revolutionary 1894- kravchinsky

Question 2

Quote to suggest discontent caused by censorship

Answer 2

‘The whole revolutionary movemnet is nothing but a violent protest against cruel injusticce and gag-law’
Kennan- british visitor writing in 1891

Question 3

Quote to suggest tsarist regime is weak

Answer 3

‘No form of government can survive’ milyukov- russian liberal 1905

Question 4

Quotes from duma- russian constitution

Answer 4

‘Tsar exercises the legislative power’ ‘the initiative in all branches of legislation belongs to the tsar’ ‘the tsar is sacred’