Tsar Nicholas

Question 1

What was the personality of the Tsar?

Answer 1

. He was a very proud person and because of this he was obstinate and stubborn and because of this he didn’t want change.
. Nicholas did not have the practical knowledge to rule and he didn’t really know how to govern anything.
. He had no real idea of the problems Russia faced.

Question 2

Who were the Populists, SRs and SDs?

Answer 2

. Populists - university students who wanted educate the peasantry and transform the revolutionaries.
. SRs - were essentially terrorists who were responsible for 2000 assassinations between 1901 and 1905.
. SDs - formed in 1898, main aim was to form a communist revolution under the ideas of Karl Marx.