W1, L4 - Autocracy

True or False - The Tsars believed they had been appointed by God.

• True

• False

__________ believed that Russia should maintain its own traditions and did not want a Constitution.

• Westerners

• Slavophiles

• Cabinet Ministers

• Cossacks

The Tsar who emancipated the serfs in 1861 was

• Alexander II

• Alexander I

• Nicholas I

• Nicholas II

Alexander II

• updated the judicial system

• developed a Constitution

• reformed education

• introduced local government - zemstva

Sergei Witte was the Finance Minister from 1892 to 1903 and was the architect of Russian industrialisation.

• True

• False

Developments under Sergei Witte included:

• Growth of the railway system

• foreign investments from countries like France

• rejecting the gold standard

• stimulating growth of iron, steel and coal.

The peasants made up _____ of the population.

• 80%

• 60%

• 90%

• 20%

There were only ____ million urban workers in Russia.

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 1

The urban workers (working class) were a threat because:

• they were more literate

• they worked in large factories of thousands

• they were resentful of working conditions

• they felt sympathy for the peasants

The minority groups and nationalities resented the policiy of ...

• Nationalism

• Russification

• Modernisation