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40 Cards in this Set
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What percentage of the Russian population were peasants? |
80% |
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What had Russian peasants been until 1861? |
Serfs |
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What were the two largest cities in Russia in 1900? |
Moscow / St Petersburg |
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What percentage of the Russian population were urban workers? |
4% |
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Where were most urban workers employed? |
Factories |
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Which social group included merchants, bankers and capitalists? |
Middle class |
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Which social group owned 25% of Russia's land? |
The nobility |
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What percentage of the Russian population were in this group? |
1.5% |
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Which German philosopher created the theory of communism? |
Karl Marx |
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He was influenced by which historic change in 19th Century Britain? |
Industrial Revolution |
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What name is given to an absolute ruler like Tsar Nicholas II? |
Autocrat |
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Name the Tsar's secret police who arrested political dissidents: |
Okhrana |
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What word describes government control over what is published? |
Censorahip |
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Russian defeat in which 1904-5 war damaged the Tsar's reputation? |
Russo-Japanese War |
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Which 1905 massacre of protestors started the 1905 Revolution? |
Bloody Sunday |
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As well as striking, workers formed what to represent their interests? |
Soviets |
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In the 1905 Revolution, what did peasants do in the countryside? |
Seized nobles' land |
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Which battleship mutinied and sailed to Odessa in 1905? |
Potemkin |
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What set of promises did the Tsar issue to stop the revolution? |
October Manifesto |
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Name the elected parlament that he promised to create: |
Duma |
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In which year did the First World War begin? |
1914 |
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At which 1914 battle was Russia defeated by Germany? |
Tannenberg |
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How many Russians were killed, wounded or captured by 1917? |
Eight million |
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Terrible war conditions caused thousands of soldiers to do what? |
Desert |
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Name two effects of the war on the people at home in Russia: |
Food shortages / Price rises |
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Who took personal command of the war effort in 1915? |
Tsar Nicholas II. |
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Who was left to rule Russia in his absence? |
The Tsarina & Rasputin |
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In Feb. 1915, 40,000 workers in Petrograd did what? |
Went on strike |
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When his soldiers refused to crush the protests, what did Nich. II do? |
Abdicated |
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What was this event, which ended Tsarist rule in Russia, called? |
February Revolution |
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Which government led Russia after the Tsar's abdication? |
Provisional Government |
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Who was the leader of this government? |
Alexander Kerensky |
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With whom was this government forced to share power? |
The Petrograd Soviet |
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From which conflict did thia government refuse to remove Russia? |
WW1 |
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What did this government refuse to distribute to the peasants? |
Land |
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Which Bolshevik returned to Russia in 1917 to encourage revolution? |
Lenin |
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Which other Communist revolutionary was his second-in-command? |
Trotsky |
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Name the Bolshevik armed guards who carried out the rovolution: |
Red Guards |
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Which symbolic building was stormed by the Bolsheviks in Oct 1917? |
Winter Palace |
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What name is given to thi s second, communist revolution of 1917? |
October Revolution |
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