AH- Russian Empire

Who was Tar Nicholas II's finance minister- who led Russia's industrialisation?

• Tsar Alexander II

• Sergei Witte

• Peter Stolypin

• Karl Marx

What % of the population were peasants before 1900?

• 80%

• 90%

• 95%

• 99%

What was the policy of Russification?

• Policy to allow national minorities freedom

• Policy to industrialise Russia

• Policy to repress national minorities

• Policy to help workers

What were the three principles underpinning Tsarist rule?

• Autocracy, Nationality, Orthodoxy

• The army, the peasants and the church

• The Cossacks, Orthodoxy, Nationality

• Repression, Rule, Reform

By 1900 coal output in Russia had tripled by 1/3. What is this an example of?

• The improvement in agriculture

• The improvement of industry

• The Tsar's care for the workers

Who wrote about the theory of communism?

• Karl Marx

• Tsar Nicholas II

• Leon Trotsky

• Vladimir Lenin

What were redemption payments?

• Payments to landowner to free serfs

• Payments to buy a house

• Payments to get out of exile

What political opposition to the Tsar wanted reform?

• Socialist Revolutionaries

• Liberals

• Social Democrats

• Populists

The Social Democrats were split into two groups following 1903 Second Party Congress. What were they?

• Bolsheviks and Populists

• Mensheviks and SR's

• Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

• Bolsheviks and Liberals