Unit One - 1905 revolution

Question 1

Russo Japanese War 1904 causes

Answer 1

territorial disputes - manchuria
Turning back on agreements to remove troops in 1903
Wanting an ice free port
Distract citizens

Question 2

Treaty of Portsmouth

Answer 2

1905
Ended Russo Japanese War
Japanese control of Korea

Question 3

Political opposition

Answer 3

High taxation / unemployment
Fall wages
Repression

Question 4

Bloody Sunday

Answer 4

22nd January 1905
Around 200 dead

Question 5

Potemkin Mutiny

Answer 5

1905
1000s dead
Odessa - anti-gov stance

Question 6

October Manifesto

Answer 6

1905 - Witte
Liberals + Peasants appeased
Workers left ignored + army attacked

Question 7

Need for Stolypin’s reforms
1906-1911

Answer 7

Inflation
Unemployment / overcrowding
Bad harvests - 1891 / 1897 famines

Question 8

De-revolutionising peasants

Answer 8

Please peasants by irradicating mortgage repayments
Reason why joined revolution - believed land repossessed

Question 9

Wager on Strong

Answer 9

1906
Restore peasants security
Prosperous peasantry
Encouraged to abolish strip farming
Land Bank

Question 10

Stolypin successful?

Answer 10

No
Conservatism by peasants
Assassinated 1911 - needed 20 years

Question 11

Tsar limiting Duma powers

Answer 11

Fundamental Laws 1906
Loans from France
Bi-cameral - VETO powers

Question 12

Duma one date

Answer 12

April - June 1906

Question 13

Duma one

Answer 13

Reformist parties - criticised gov
Dissolved 2 months - nothing achieve
Led to Vyborg appeal

Question 14

Vyborg appeal date

Answer 14

1906

Question 15

Vyborg Appeal

Answer 15

200 Kadets + Labourists in Finland
Urged defiance of gov = tax / conscription
Led to Stolypin’s repression

Question 16

Stolypin repression

Answer 16

Martial Law proclaimed
Military courts
Stolypin’s necktie - 1906-1911 = 2500 executed

Question 17

2nd Duma date

Answer 17

February - June 1907

Question 18

2nd Duma

Answer 18

SDs / SRs replaced Kadets
Revolutionaries VS RW
Duma VS TSar
Dissolved

Question 19

Why did Tsar keep Duma

Answer 19

Appeared democratic for FDI
Foreign relations trade

Question 20

Voting Laws changed

Answer 20

Stolypin
Reduction is peasant / worker representation - supporters of Tsar

Question 21

3rd Duma date

Answer 21

November 1907 - June 1912

Question 22

Duma three

Answer 22

More cooperative - allowed land reforms passed
2571 bills approved:
Poor people in school
NI for industrial workers

Question 23

Duma four date

Answer 23

November 1912 - August 1914

Question 24

4th Duma

Answer 24

Criticised gov
Disbanded at start of war
Returned + progressive bloc

Question 25

Progessive bloc

Answer 25

conservatives + Liberals – adopt reforms to increase public confidence + improve management of WW1 efforts

Question 26

1911

Answer 26

1911 – 1914 – Strikes x100 – 24 – 2400
17,000 acts of terrorism

Question 27

Lena Goldfields incident

Answer 27

Demands in Siberia for better pay / working conditions
Employers appealed to police
Troops fired upon miners – killed 200-300