Tsarism and Tsar Nicholas II Flashcards
1
Q
“He was quite incapable of exercising power”
A
Orlando Figes (Tsarism)
1
Q
“Nicholas inherited not one quality which would make him capable of ruling”
A
Leon Trotsky (Tsarism)
2
Q
“I will preserve the principles of autocracy”
A
Tsar Nicholas II (Tsarism)
3
Q
“The Japanese are infidels we will crush them”
A
Tsar Nicholas II (Tsarism)
4
Q
“I shall never agree to any form of representative government”
A
Tsar Nicholas II (Tsarism)
5
Q
“The Tsarist regime was pregnant with internal contradictions”
A
Steve Smith (Tsarism)
6
Q
“The collapse of Tsarmis was rooted in a crisis of modernisation.”
A
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Tsarism)
