Tsars and Commissars

Question 1

What years did Alexander II rule?

Answer 1

1855-1881

Question 2

When and by who was Alexander II assassinated?

Answer 2

1881 by the People’s Will

Question 3

When was the Emanicpation Edict passed?

Answer 3

1861

Question 4

What reforms did Alexander II pass in 1863?

Answer 4

Education reforms were passed; allowing the existance of privatised schools, making alterations to curriculums

Question 5

How was power devolved in 1864 (under Alexander II)?

Answer 5

The Zemstva was formed to imporve local government

Question 6

What reppression took place under Alexander II?

Answer 6

The Trial of the 50 - trial of key political opponents

Question 7

When did Alexander III rule?

Answer 7

1881 (after assassination of father) - 1894

Question 8

What repressive measure was passed in 1881?

Answer 8

The Statute of State Security

Question 9

What kind of ruler was Alexander II?

Answer 9

Reformer

Question 10

Why did Alexander III launch a pogrom against the Jews?

Answer 10

As a Jew was involved with the assassination of Alex II

Question 11

How many decrees were made against the Jews in 1881?

Answer 11

600 Decrees

Question 12

What reform occured under Alexander III?

Answer 12

Peasant Land Bank

Question 13

What happened to education under Alexander III?

Answer 13

Cencored and centralised education

Question 14

How did Alex III repress the peasants?

Answer 14

By enforcing the Land Captains to monitor and control behaviour

Question 15

When did the famine happen? (Alex III)

Answer 15

1891-92 (Alexander III)

Question 16

What years did Nicholas II rule?

Answer 16

1894 - 1917 (Abdicated)

Question 17

What year did he announced the October Manifesto?

Answer 17

1905

Question 18

When was the first Duma introduced?

Answer 18

1906

Question 19

How many seats in the first Duma belonged to the national minorities?

Answer 19

120

Question 20

What military mistake did Nicholas II make during WWI?

Answer 20

Personally controlling the army

Question 21

What major event happened in 1917?

Answer 21

Russian revolution in which Nicholas was advised to abdicate, PG took control

Question 22

How and when did the Romanov family die?

Answer 22

Executed without trial by the Cheka (secret police under Lenin), July 1918, Ekaterinburg

Question 23

What was significant about 1917?

Answer 23

First real systemic change, dual power government - Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet

Question 24

When did Lenin come into power?

Answer 24

1917 - 1924

Question 25

What was the name of Lenins main revolutionary newspaper?

Answer 25

The Spark

Question 26

What party did Lenin lead?

Answer 26

Bolsheviks

Question 27

What victories did Lenin obtain during his dictatorship?

Answer 27

The Storming of the Winter Palace (1917) and the Civil War (1917-1920)

Question 28

What repressive article was passed to help win the Civil War?

Answer 28

War Communism

Question 29

What did Lenin replace War Communism with in 1921?

Answer 29

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Question 30

Who was invlolved in the power struggle after Lenin’s death?

Answer 30

Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev, Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky

Question 31

Stalin was in power for which years?

Answer 31

1927 - 1953

Question 32

Which power base did Stalin control before becoming leader?

Answer 32

General Secretary of the Communist Party

Question 33

What years were the Five Year Plans implimented?

Answer 33

1928-1933 (until WWII)

Question 34

What year was collectivisation started?

Answer 34

1929

Question 35

What occured in the years 1936-1938?

Answer 35

The Great Terror and Show Trials
Appointed Beria as head of NKVD
Allowed the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact

Question 36

What year did Khrushchev’s Secret Speech happen?

Answer 36

1956 (officially disclosed in 1961)

Question 37

What campaign was started in 1954?

Answer 37

The Vigin Land Scheme