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Russia 1895-1917

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who became Tsar in 1894?

a)

Catherine the Great

b)

Peter the Great

c)

Nicholas I

d)

Nicholas II

2.

Where was his wife from?

a)

Russia

b)

Germany

c)

Great Britain

d)

France

3.

What was the term used to describe attacks on Jewish communities in the Russian Empire?

a)

pogrom

b)

holocaust

c)

kulak

d)

anti-semitism

4.

Where did the Tsar usually live?

a)

The Kremlin in Moscow

b)

The Smolny Institute

c)

The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

5.

Who wrote the October Manifesto?

a)

Lenin

b)

Stolypin

c)

The Tsar

d)

Count Witte

6.

What was the name of the Tsarist secret police?

a)

Cheka

b)

KGB

c)

Okhrana

d)

NKVD

7.

What was the name of the priest who brought a petition to the Tsar in 1905?

a)

Rasputin

b)

Father Gapon

c)

The Pope

8.

What was the term used to describe prosperous peasants?

a)

kolkhoz

b)

kulak

c)

serfs

d)

Stakhanovites

9.

What year did the Tsar go to the front in World War 1?

a)

1914

b)

1915

c)

1915

d)

1916

10.

How many Russian casualties had there been by 1917?

a)

1 million

b)

2 million

c)

4 million

d)

8 million

11.

What is the correct order for the April Theses?

a)

Bread, Peace, Land

b)

Land, Bread, Peace

c)

Peace, Bread, Land

12.

Where did Lenin flee after the July Days?

a)

Siberia

b)

Switzerland

c)

Finland

d)

USA

13.

What was the name of the general who tried to stage a coup in 1917?

a)

Zhukov

b)

Tukachevsky

c)

Kornilov

d)

Kerensky

14.

Who had become leader of the Provisional Government after the July Days?

a)

Stolypin

b)

Trotsky

c)

Kerensky

d)

Witte

15.

What was the name of the naval base near Petrograd?

a)

Vladivostock

b)

Kronstadt

c)

Petrograd

d)

Odessa