WW1 P2

Question 1

Fourth Duma reassembles on…

Answer 1

July 1915

Question 2

… of …. formed themselves into the ‘Progressive Bloc’

Answer 2

236 of 422 Duma members

Question 3

Tsarina Alexdrania, note to Nicholas:

Answer 3

“[The people’s] nature demands the whip”

Question 4

From … to …. Russia had many different ministers

Answer 4

September 1915 to February 1917

Question 5

Alexandria appointed …

Answer 5

4 Prime Ministers
3 War Ministers
3 Foreign Ministers

Question 6

Fines called Alexandria’s erratic transformation of the Russian government:

Answer 6

“Ministral leapfrogging”

Question 7

Figes on Rasputin:

Answer 7

Rasputin “used her as a mouthpiece for his own pretensions for power”

Question 8

Figes on Rasputin and Alexandria:

Answer 8

“Alexandria’s ‘sexual corruption’ became a kind of metaphor for the diseased condition of the tsarist state”

Question 9

Lynch on Rasputin:

Answer 9

“The Rasputin scandal had been a bizarre symptom of the disease affecting Russian politics; not a cause”

Question 10

Figes on the War:

Answer 10

“The First World War was a titanic test for the states of Europe, one that Tsarist failed in a singular and catastrophic way”