Geography/Climate
The name given to the prevailing biome in Northern Russia.
What is the tundra region?
Name of the emerging middle class in Russia
What is the bourgeoisie?
Three early grievances experienced by those living in the Russian empire under Nicholas II.
What is poverty, famine, poor working conditions, lack of rights and freedoms, Russo-Japanese War (homefront conditions)?
Three categories of reform introduced following the 1905 Revolution.
What are land, social and industrial reforms?
Name given to elected local, district or national councils that sprung up all over Russia from as early as 1905.
What is a workers soviet?
The single most important factor that contributed to the significantly varied population density throughout the country.
What is climate?
An emancipation reform introduced by Alexander II in 1861 ended this medieval practice in Russia.
What is serfdom?
Name of the priest who led the proletariat classes to the Winter Palace with a petition for the Tsar.
Who is Georgy Gapon?
Three major political impacts of the 1905 Revolution.
What is the October Manifesto, Duma and Fundamental Laws.
Two propaganda slogans used by the Bolsheviks to help instigate revolution.
What is 'All Power to the Soviets' and 'Peace, Land and Bread'.
Name given to the economic structure prevalent in Russia during the early twentieth century.
What is an agrarian economy?
Percentage of peasants within Russian society.
What is 82%?
Three major features of the 1905 Revolution.
What are riots and strikes, murdered officials and landlords and non-Russian citizens declaring independence.
Name of three opposing political parties formed as a result of improvements to civil liberties.
Who are the social revolutionaries, Trudoviks, Kadets, Octobrists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks.
Three major reasons the public were disgruntled with Rasputin.
What was his influence over the Tsarina, his debauchery, his poor upbringing?
Name of the single cross country railway that existed in Russia built at the end of the 18th and early 20th centuries.
What is the trans-Siberian railway?
Policy aimed at controlling all nationalities within the Russian empire.
What is Russification?
Bands of thugs who shut down revolutionaries following the 1905 revolution.
Who were the Black Hundreds?
Number of days the first Duma survived.
What is 75?
Event which kickstarted the October Revolution in1917.
What is the Putilov Steel Workers strike?
5% of this was left in the taiga region of Russia.
What is arable land?
Percentage of land owned by Russian aristocrats.
What is 25%
The gallows became a key feature of which Chief Minister of the Duma.
Who is Peter Stolypin?
The changes introduced by Nicholas II to ensure the election of conservative dumas.
What are voting laws.
The purpose of Order #1 as set forth by the Petrograd Soviet which gave them greater power than the Provisional Government.
What is an oath of loyalty from the army to the Petrograd Soviet? (He who controls the army controls the country).