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Tsarist Russia 1855 - 1917 AS Level Unit 1 Quiz

Pregunta 1 de 171

1

How vast was Russia

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 8 million square miles twice the size of Europe and a sixth of the earths surface.

  • 4 million square miles but smaller than China

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 171

1

How inhospitable was RUssia in 1855?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Over two thirds

  • Half

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 171

1

Russia had huge amounts of natural resources why didn't it use them? ( 1855 )

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Lack of industrialisation

  • They didn't want to

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 171

1

What was the population of Russia in 1855?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Around 69 million

  • 67 million

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 171

1

How many were ethnic Russian of the population of 69 million in 1855?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Less than half

  • 85%

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 171

1

How much of the population lived in European Russia?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 3/4

  • 1/2

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 171

1

What percentage of the population of 69 million in 1855 were serfs?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 85%

  • 54%

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 171

1

What percentage of the population in Russia (1855) were literate?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 28%

  • 40%

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 171

1

Landowners owned the land they were 10% of the total population, how much land did they hold?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 75% of all of Russia

  • 50% of all of Russia

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 171

1

What political system was Russia under in 1855 - 1917

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Constitutional government

  • Tsarist Autocracy

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 171

1

How big was the army and what was the selection process

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1.5million peasant conscripts

  • 1.6million conscription of all classes from the age of 20

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 171

1

In the army's promotion of the higher ranks was promoted by?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Birth into higher classes

  • Skill and merit

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 171

1

In 1855 what was the time a peasant should serve in the army?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 25 years

  • 15 years

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 171

1

Where did the conscripted serfs stay when in reserves?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Army colonies

  • Military colleges

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 171

1

In an early attempt to reduce serfdom in 1803 Alexader I had made it legal for landowners to sell their land to serfs

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 171

1

How many people took advantage of Alexander I reform to land ownership in 1803 - 1855?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 100,000

  • 378,000

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 171

1

Several Baltic States had already abolished serfdom

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 171

1

Nicholas I had convened 10 secret councils to discuss the issue of serfdom and had concluded?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • That it was ' an evil palpable to all '

  • That it ' needed to be abolished for the economy to move forward '

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 171

1

After a series of secret meetings in what years did Alexander II tour the country try making pro emancipation speeches?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1858 - 1859

  • 1856 - 1857

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 171

1

Who did Alexander II make these speeches to?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Peasants and nobles

  • Nobles

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 171

1

Alexander II, several months after setting up groups of nobles to draw up plans for emancipation ( unpresidented inclusion of the people in tsarist legislation) what did he do

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Set up a commission of 38 led by Nicholas Milyutin that drew up an edict

  • Went for lunch in St. Petersburg with Milyutin brothers

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 171

1

The edict only initially applied to privately owned serfs and this left 27 million exempt

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 171

1

In the emancipationn serfs were to be released from bondage and become free men with legal rights?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 171

1

Each family of serfs excluding domestic serfs received what?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A cottage and an average 9 acre allotment

  • A Lifetime supply of wood-shaving porridge

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 171

1

In what way were the nobles compensated for their loss of land?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • With money in the form of government bonds

  • With a letter from Alexander saying sorry

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 171

1

In what method and for how long would serfs pay for their allotted land?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Via redemption payments over 10 years with 7% interest per annum

  • Via redemption payments over 49 years with 6% per annum

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 171

1

Emancipated serfs were to stay within their Mir until they or their families had payed reparation payments in full

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 171

1

What did the Mir govern ( village communes )

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Distribution of land and payment collections

  • Serf working hours ( after emancipation )

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 171

1

Serfs had to continue to pay obrock for 2 years after the emancipation

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 171

1

Landowners would maintain ownership of meadows pasture and woodland after the emancipation.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 171

1

Communal fields were to be held by the mir and farmed by any previous serfs?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 171

1

Volosts were formed to supervise the Mir and acted as a form of peasant self government and from 1863 had thier own courts

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 171

1

In theory the process of freeing 21 million private serfs would take 2 years how long did it actually take?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Just over 3 years

  • 20 years

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 171

1

Who felt that the emancipation hadn't fully met thier interests?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Nobles and peasants

  • Peasants

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 171

1

What were the peasants called that bought land from less prosperous serfs and produced surplus grain.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Kulaks

  • Prosperous ex serfs

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 171

1

The nobles found the compensation useful what did many of them do with them?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • pay off debts and invest in railways, banking, industry and cities

  • Buy a new houses with servents

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 171

1

Russian industrialisation couldn't keep up with the influx of peasants into the cities, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 171

1

under what system were the serfs who had sold their land allowed to travel to the cities?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • internal passport system

  • the internal transport system

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 171

1

many peasants resented the redemption payments and the lack of real change in their situations, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 171

1

tick the statements that are true about land relocation after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the average plot of land for serfs in Russia was about 9 acres

  • the plot sizes decreased in the Ukraine by approx. 30.8%

  • only 50 % of peasants were able to produce a surplus of grain due to increasing agricultural backwardness

  • nobles often gave the best land to peasants in sympathy

  • as nobles and landowners were in charge of the volosts and zemstvas they often allocated the best strips of land to themselves and set prices for land above the market value giving peasants less money to spend on consumer goods decreasing internal market demand, in turn this meant the likelihood of industrialisation was low as there was no need of consumer goods.

  • nobles didn't sell their land as it wasn't the law

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 171

1

the Mir proved to be conservative in outlook and stood in the way of new industrial farming techniques from being implemented on farms, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 171

1

tick the different attributes that the Mir governed on a local basis...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • issuing internal passports for movement within Russia

  • could take away rights of peasants

  • controlled tax and redemption payments

  • could take peasants to court

  • was made up of mostly peasants and elected by peasants

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 171

1

disruptions broke out between landowners and peasants over redemption payments and land, in the four months following the Edict of 1861 how many riots were there?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 647

  • 500

  • 300

  • 575

  • 0

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 171

1

the suppression of a riot in Bezdna, Kazan in 1861, by the military left 70 peasants dead, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 171

1

when did the consequent military reforms to the emancipation of 1861 take place?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1876-78

  • 1874-75

  • 1862-63

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 171

1

after the emancipation the military was left with no conscripts so Dimitri Milyutin began a program of reform to create a smaller more professional army, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 171

1

military service could no longer be used as a punishment by courts, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 171

1

military colonies were abandoned True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 171

1

what changes were made to the way conscription in Russia worked?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • all were susceptible to conscription from all classes by the age of 18

  • all classes had top serve for 15 years from the age of 20 6 years active service and 9 in the reserves

  • only nobles could now be conscripted from the age of 20 and train in military colleges

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 171

1

military punishments were made less severe to help morale in the army, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 171

1

modern machinery and weaponry were introduced tick what improvements were made...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • iron-clad steam ships, strategic railways

  • tanks, iron clad steamships and 100 submarines

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 171

1

under Dimitri Milyutin 15 new regional command centres were set up

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 171

1

the cost of the army went down and the literacy rates of the army increased, largely due to military colleges. True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 171

1

how could nobles undermine the new conscription system?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • they could find substitutes in their place while they took the higher ranks so the army remained largely ruled by aristocrats and a peasant force.

  • they completely ignored it facing no consequences

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 171

1

what war did Russia take a very long time to win

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Russo-Turkish war 1877-78 took them a long time to win against the already crippled ottamans which should have been an easy target.

  • Crimean War

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 171

1

in what years were the consequent educational reforms to the emancipation of 1861 made?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1862-1870

  • 1861-1863

  • 1864-1870

  • 1862-1866

Explicación

Pregunta 57 de 171

1

before the emancipation landowners had been in charge of judicial systems and infrastructure but now there was a void that needed filling, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 58 de 171

1

elecetd local councils were introduced in 1863 as a result of a commision that was set up by Alexander and led by Nicholas Milyutin in 1860, what were they called?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Uezd provincial level

  • zemstva provincial level

  • Dumy district level

  • Dumy, cities

  • Uezd district level

Explicación

Pregunta 59 de 171

1

The Zemstva representatives were chosen through ELECTORAL COLLEGES votes were weighted towards the nobles, True or False

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 60 de 171

1

From 1875 conscription was compulsory from the age of 20 for all classes, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 61 de 171

1

After the military reforms of 1975, Iron clad steam ships and strategic railways were built, True or false?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 62 de 171

1

what did the Zmestva control?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Improvement of public service, e.g. Roads, education, etc.

  • Taxes

  • Redemption payments and allocation of land

Explicación

Pregunta 63 de 171

1

zemstvas were introduced in 1863, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 64 de 171

1

When were Zemstvas introduced in cities as Dumas?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1870

  • 1863

  • 1881

  • 1866

Explicación

Pregunta 65 de 171

1

Why were Liberals disappointed with the local government reforms of 1864-70?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Didn't account for a national constitution or a full assembly.

  • Didnt increase wages of those in the Zemstva

Explicación

Pregunta 66 de 171

1

True or False: Zemstvas were very effective as they were made up of people who knew the area particularly in the area of education and welfare...

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 67 de 171

1

True or False: since the Zemstva were full of liberal minded people like doctors and lawyers, they provided a forum of debate and criticism of the regime...

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 68 de 171

1

what did the electoral college system mean that the Zemstva was...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Not truly a representative peoples assembly as it was heavily biased towards the higher classes i.e. Landowners and nobles

  • really bad

Explicación

Pregunta 69 de 171

1

True or False the Zemstvas powers were limited, they had no control over taxes and provincial governors selected by the Tsar were responsible for judiciary and could overturn decisions of the Zemstva.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 70 de 171

1

by 1914 how many of the 70 districts of Russia had a Zemstva?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 43/70

  • 60/70

  • 36/70

Explicación

Pregunta 71 de 171

1

3 years after the Emancipation Edict in 1864 who made the judicial reforms?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dmitrtii Zamyatnin

  • Pobedonostev

  • Perischevich

Explicación

Pregunta 72 de 171

1

True or False: the old judiciary system demanded a complete overhaul especially concerning property law after the emancipation

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 73 de 171

1

after the emancipation landowners wanted legal protection from any backlash they may get from the freed serfs.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 74 de 171

1

before the emancipation serfs had little of any legal civil rights, they were presumed guilty unless proven innocent

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 75 de 171

1

the old system was heavily critised by the intelligentsia as there were no provisions for defence for the peasants

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 76 de 171

1

after 3 years of considerartion Dmitrii Zamyatnin introduced a new legal system modelled on the west

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 77 de 171

1

in Dmitrii Zamyatnin's new judical reforms what new legislation was introduced? ( Tick all of the applicable boxes)

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Equality before the law was established

  • cases at district level were to be heard before barristers and a jury composed of land-owners randomly selected by the zemstva

  • proceedings would be open to the public and conducted orally ( as opposed to in written form)

  • the accused could now employ defence

  • judges were to be appointed by the Tsar and were given better training and pay to negate corruption

  • there was now a system of appeal

  • local courts with magistrates appointed by the zemstva handled smaller petty crime and could not give out a sentence of more than one years imprisonment- these were independent of political control.

  • volost courts were established to deal with those leaving serfdom they were overseen by peasants elected by peasants and could give out reprimands, fines of up to 300 roubles and prison sentences from 3 months to a year

  • Freedom of press was extended to legal publishing, it was to be recorded in a state newspaper called the 'Russian Courier"

Explicación

Pregunta 78 de 171

1

opening up the courts to the public mean that lawyers could become celebrities and some used this opportunity to criticise the regime, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 79 de 171

1

tick a correct example of Lawyers critisising the regime

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1878 Vera Zasulich who was acquitted of terrorism by a sympathetic jury after shooting the governor of St. Petersburg

  • the case of Pobedonostev

Explicación

Pregunta 80 de 171

1

True or False after the case of Vera Zasulichall political crimes would now be dealt with by a special procedure and revolutionaries were arrested and dealt with by the Third Section

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 81 de 171

1

True or False, Military courts were excluded from the reforms , and in some regions trail by jury wasn't established.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 82 de 171

1

who was the minister of education in the years 1862 -1867?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Alexander Golovnin

  • Prince Lvov

  • Romanov

Explicación

Pregunta 83 de 171

1

in what years did the education reforms take place?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1863 - 64

  • 1865 -67

Explicación

Pregunta 84 de 171

1

there was a need to create an educated Russian class that wasn't run by the conservative Russian Orthodox church which had previously been responsible for education, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 85 de 171

1

emancipation meant that peasnat bedly needed some education so that they could manage their ownland with basic literacy and numeracy.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 86 de 171

1

the regime was suspicious of mass education, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 87 de 171

1

The Zemstva provided an opportunity for change within the educational system, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 88 de 171

1

1862- 67 Alexander Golovnin managed to push through some reforms but was later replaced with the more conservative tolstoy

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 89 de 171

1

in what year were universities given the opportunity to govern themselves and appoint their own staff, under approval of the ministry of education?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1863

  • 1864

  • 1867

Explicación

Pregunta 90 de 171

1

in what year was the responsibilty of education transferred from the Orthodox church to the Zemstva

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1864

  • 1867

  • 1863

Explicación

Pregunta 91 de 171

1

In Alexander Golovnin's education reforms extended primary and secondary education he also intrdouced modern schools fo those who didn't want a classiclal education and both of these offered university opportunities

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 92 de 171

1

In Alexander Golovnin's educational reforms schools wre made open and equal to all

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 93 de 171

1

how did the amount of schools rise from 1856-1880

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1856 primary schools 8000 and in 1880 there were 23000 primary schools and number of children in education went from 400,000 to over 1 million

  • 1856 7000 primary schools and in 1880 20,000 primarys chools and number of children in education had risen form 387,000 to over 2 million

Explicación

Pregunta 94 de 171

1

the curriculum remained conservative

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 95 de 171

1

when did the censorship reforms take place?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1858- 1870

  • 1861 - 70

  • 1863-70

Explicación

Pregunta 96 de 171

1

Under Nicholas I censorship had been extensive, True or false?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 97 de 171

1

in what year was censorship placed under the responsibility of the ministry of internal affairs?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1863

  • 1862

  • 1861

  • 1865

Explicación

Pregunta 98 de 171

1

in what year did the press and book publishers receive guidelines which reduced restrictions of the press?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1865

  • 1864

  • 1867

Explicación

Pregunta 99 de 171

1

foreign publications could now be sold in Russia after the new rules of censorship were passed in 1865 ( with the approval of the state)

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 100 de 171

1

The new courts system provided a fairer way in which to challenge censorship

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 101 de 171

1

in what year were editorials allowed to comment on the government and its policies?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1865

  • 1867

Explicación

Pregunta 102 de 171

1

the new censorship laws led to growth in critical writing's such as Chernevsky's " What is to be done?"

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 103 de 171

1

what years did the new economic reforms take place under Mikhail Von Reutern ( Minister of finance 1862 -78 )

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1862 - 78

  • 1864-76

Explicación

Pregunta 104 de 171

1

tick all the improvements that Mikhail Von Reutern made to the Economy in Russia...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Treasury was reformed to streamline government expenditure

  • Tax farming was abolished

  • State bank established in 1860, municipal 1862, savings 1869

  • Trade policies were reformed to be more liberal

  • The government offred to subsidise entrepreneurs to develop railways

  • Foreign investment in Russia was encouraged

  • The cotton and coal industries were encouraged ( taking advantage if the American Civil War 1861 -65)

  • Other reforms worked in tandem to create a period of growth

  • Comparatively Russias economy had remained weak

Explicación

Pregunta 105 de 171

1

in the years 1860-78 how much of the Governments income was composed of indirect taxation of peasants

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 66%

  • 50%

  • 49%

Explicación

Pregunta 106 de 171

1

in the years 1860 - 78 how much of the governement's total expenditure was spent on debt?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1/3

  • 1/2

  • 1/4

Explicación

Pregunta 107 de 171

1

during the years 1860 -78 the rouble fluctuated widely

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 108 de 171

1

the slow speed of railway construction undermined trade

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 109 de 171

1

In what years did the reforms to churches take place?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1867-69

  • 1869-72

Explicación

Pregunta 110 de 171

1

what was another name for the new church reforms?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Opium of the masses

  • destruction of the Orthodox church

Explicación

Pregunta 111 de 171

1

it was feared that if the church fell in to disrepute it would weaken the regime

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 112 de 171

1

an Ecclasiastical commission set up in 1862 which was responsible for all church reforms

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 113 de 171

1

in what year did the church allow talented priests to gain promotion?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1862

  • 1868

Explicación

Pregunta 114 de 171

1

The church reforms did little else than the previous, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 115 de 171

1

in 1868 restrictions on national minorities from the beggining of A2's reign the Finns were allowed a national Diet, and catholicism was more accepted even jews had some relaxation in their restrictions, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 116 de 171

1

most off the relaxation toward minorities was reversed in 1863, True or false?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 117 de 171

1

one of the main reasons for reform was the failure of Russia in the Crimean War

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 118 de 171

1

what years was the Crimean war in ?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1853- 56

  • 1854-55

Explicación

Pregunta 119 de 171

1

Russia faced a humiliating defeat to who in Balaclava in October 1854

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Britain

  • France

  • Britain, France, Turkey

  • Britain, France, Turkey and Peidmont- Sardinia

Explicación

Pregunta 120 de 171

1

select the two other failures that took place 1854 -55

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Inkerman, November 1854

  • Inkerman, November 1855

  • Sebastapol 1855

  • Sebastapol 1854

Explicación

Pregunta 121 de 171

1

which treaty ended the Crimean War?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Treaty of Versailles 1918 - 1919

  • Pourtsmouth Treaty August 23rd 1905

  • Treaty of Paris 1856

  • Treaty of Laussanne

Explicación

Pregunta 122 de 171

1

what were the terms of the Treat of Paris 1856 that affected Russia?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • limited Russian influence in the Black Sea and restricted deployment of Russian warships into the sea

  • Russia had to destroy its fleet and only use ports for peaceful trade i.e. no weaponry.

Explicación

Pregunta 123 de 171

1

Russia was shown up as a " great power" True or False ( in the Crimean War)

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 124 de 171

1

Russia's serf conscript army was outdated and had inferior weaponry as its industry was incapable of keeping up with the demands of War select a correct fact about how limited the weaponry was

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1 musket to every 2 soldiers

  • 2/3 of Russia Soldiers in some battalions died before they even reached the frontlines

  • 1 shell per person per day

Explicación

Pregunta 125 de 171

1

Who put forward the idea of a new smaller more profesional army in 1874?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dmitrii Milyutin

  • Dmitrii Zamyatnin

Explicación

Pregunta 126 de 171

1

Alexander II himself was one of the main reasons for reform in Russia between 1855 -1881 True or False

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 127 de 171

1

A2 had travelled widely as a youth and had academically studied the effects of serfdom

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 128 de 171

1

for how many years had he served on the council of state before becoming Tsar

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 5

  • 10

  • 11

  • 15

Explicación

Pregunta 129 de 171

1

A2 frequently took the place of his father as Tsar when he wasn't present so had a lot of previous experience

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 130 de 171

1

Alexander II was committed to Autocracy , but saw the need for change to do what?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Make life for the serfs better and more liberal like in the west

  • the political system of Russia so that there was full suffrage

  • in order to increase and maintain Russia prestige and status as a great world power

Explicación

Pregunta 131 de 171

1

Tsar Alenader II was surrounded by Liberal Westinsers Tick all of them that were in his court at any one time within hi reign...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • G.D. Constantine

  • Trotsky

  • Chernevsky

  • Lenin

  • Tolstoy

  • Prince Lvov

  • G.Ds Pavlovna

  • Milyutin Bothers ( ministers of internal affairs and military)

Explicación

Pregunta 132 de 171

1

when Alexander II came to power he released some prisoners pardoned the Decemberists, relaxed censorship laws, and restored some liberties of Poland and the Catholic Church, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 133 de 171

1

The Crimean War 1853 -56 had shown the economic backwardness of Russia and the need for economic reform, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 134 de 171

1

Serfdom was a problem for industry for several reasons... Tick the boxes with the correct reasons

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Prevented the movement of workers to cities

  • It limited the development of modern farming techniques which would allow for greater surplus' reduce famine i.e. The Great Famine 1891 etc. However, this was often stopped by the conservative Mir.

  • Areas with free labour like Siberia were more productive

  • Serfdom was creating debt INFO: nobles were being forced to mortgage land in order to maintain their lifestyle in the face on insufficient production FACT: by 1859, 66% of privately owned serfs had been mortgaged as nobles' loans from the state bank

  • peasants were unable to pay their tithes FACT: 1855 the government was 54Million Roubles in debt!!!

  • They were smelly

  • They were always grumpy so no one wanted to visit Russia and invest

Explicación

Pregunta 135 de 171

1

The emerging Intelligentsia of the middle class argued for liberalisation meaning there was substantial need for political and moral reform but only to benefit the state overall, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 136 de 171

1

the social stability of the countryside threatened by pushing of serfs and the military conscription of the Crimean War 1853 - 56 how many peasant uprisings were there in the decade up to the War?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 200

  • 300

  • 400

  • 10

Explicación

Pregunta 137 de 171

1

particular groups such as the Nihlists e.g. Herzen and Turgenev argued that the possesion of people like cattle was inherently wrong and these groups put pressure on the regime for more liberal treatment of the serfs

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 138 de 171

1

the reaction of the ex- serfs ( now to be called peasants ) was of disgruntled acceptance

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 139 de 171

1

Many peasant were untouched by the reforms and many simply bypassed institutions and dealt with problems independently

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 140 de 171

1

Serfs wre generally conservative and showed polite acceptance of the regime and the possible gains of regime wre outweighd by possible punishment

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 141 de 171

1

There were some uprisings after the emancipation edict of 1861 fell short of expectations most notable pf these is in Bezdna, Kazan where 70 were shot dead by the military.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 142 de 171

1

reform had weakend the position of the nobility however they were compensated with Government bnds for their loss of land which allowed them to pay off debt and invest in railway or industrial efforts. Also they wre compensated with ositions of power in 1863 when the prvincial government or Zemstva was set up, they also maintained the higher ranks in military battalions and electorl college highly favoured them over the peasants.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 143 de 171

1

The Liberals and Intellegentsia had demand for further change as the 1863 set up of the Zemstva and the 1870 Extention of them inot cities as Dumy wasnt ebough they wanted a full national assembly. Some became anarchsists and nihlists going on to found the populist movement and others became liberals choosing to work within the Zemstva to spread ideas for change.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 144 de 171

1

There was much opposition towards the regime and the intelligentsia were split into two overall groups which were?...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Nihlists

  • Anarchists

  • Westinisers

  • Slavophiles

Explicación

Pregunta 145 de 171

1

The populists were slavophiles, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 146 de 171

1

The populists followed the idea of writers like Herzen and Chernevsky " what is to be done"

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 147 de 171

1

Their main technique was to go to the people and get peasants to take up the idea of revolution they launched this firstly in 1870, True or False?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 148 de 171

1

During the first Go To The People movement in 1870 thousands of middle class descended upon peasant communes to encourage revolution

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 149 de 171

1

The first Go To The People movement in 1870 was in two waves the first middle class dressed as peasants trying to gian theor trust and in the second they posed as doctors or teachers

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 150 de 171

1

The first Go To The People movement in 1870 Comprehensivley failed in every possible way and the peasants even handed some of the Populists in FACT: 1876 1600 populists arrested800 of which were put on trail

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 151 de 171

1

There were two main public trails of the populists tick the correct answers

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Trail of the Fifty 1877

  • The Trail of the Fifty Nine 1877

  • The Trail of the 193, 1877 - 78

Explicación

Pregunta 152 de 171

1

The liberalisation of the press due to the lessening of censorship in 865 that allowed for court trails to be publised in the " Russia Courier" these trails just spread populist messages and in the trail of the 193, 153 were acquitted and the rest got mild sentences as the defendandts were allowed to make impassioned speeches

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 153 de 171

1

Overall, Populism was a failure

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 154 de 171

1

Land and Liberty were Slavophiles

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 155 de 171

1

The Land and Liberty group is made up of some of the Populists and they re-grouped in 1877

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 156 de 171

1

The populists thet regrouped into Land and Liberty in 1877 realised they had to target the regime instead of the peasantry

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 157 de 171

1

Land and Liberty assassinated several prominent Governement officials one of them being General Mezemstev, ( Head of the Third Section ) in 1878 they also sentenced the Tsar to death un-officially

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 158 de 171

1

Eventually the Land and Liberty Movement split into what two groups in 1879

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Bolshevicks

  • Menshevicks

  • The Black Partition

  • The People's Will

Explicación

Pregunta 159 de 171

1

What was the Black Partiotion's aim?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • to redistribute all money evenly across all classes

  • to end the conscription o peasants to the army

  • To re- distribute land amongst peasants , with particular focus on the black soil areas of Russia

Explicación

Pregunta 160 de 171

1

The Black Partion worked peacefully spreading propaganda and creating ties with workers and students

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 161 de 171

1

It was led by Plekhanov , it fell after arrests in 1880-81 and collapsed as a group

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 162 de 171

1

The People's Will was led by Mikhailov

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 163 de 171

1

The Peoples Will subverted the government via assassinations and successfully assassinated the Tsar outside the Winter palace on March 13th 1881

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 164 de 171

1

In what year did The People's Will declare that the Tsar had to die?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1879

  • 1878

Explicación

Pregunta 165 de 171

1

What sub- group do the liberals fall under

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Slavophiles

  • Westinisers

Explicación

Pregunta 166 de 171

1

Liberals wanted reform rather than the complete abolishment of the Tsarist regime

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 167 de 171

1

The Liberals wanted a representative government, Civil liberties and a constitution

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 168 de 171

1

The Midlle classes were too small to warrant any true political parties , but groups of liberals operated from inside the dumy and Zemstva

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 169 de 171

1

Most liberals were peasants

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 170 de 171

1

Most liberals were gentry or professionals some of which were even present in the Tsar's court e.g. G.D. Constantine, The Tsarina and the Tsar's Mistress

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 171 de 171

1

Thanks to censorship reforms of 1863 allowingthe publication of foreing writings in Russia, Liberal literature became widely availible which encouraged the nihlist and anarchist movements

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

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