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Who is Tsar Alexander III the father of?
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov (Tsar Nicholas II)
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Where was Tsar Nicholas II born?
Near St Petersburg.
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What happened in Bloody Sunday?
At the end of the 19th century, industrial workers in Russia ormed legal labour unions and encouraged the workers to concentrate their energies on making economic gains. More than 100 marchers were killed, and several hundred were wounded.
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What is Communism?
a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the
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What is Nicholas’s uncle's name and what job did he have?
Grand Duke Vladimir, he was the head of security.
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Who was Stolypin?
Stolypin Russian minister under Nicholas II who encouraged the growth of private farmers and improved education for enterprising peasants
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What happened in the October Revolution?
The coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922.
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what is Capitalism?
an economic system based on open competition in a free market, in which individuals and companies own the means of production and operate for profit
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Who did Nicholas marry and where did she come from?
Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, she came from Germany.
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Who was Kornilov?
Commander in Chief of the Russian army, he attempted a right-wing coup to overthrow the Provisional Government in September of 1917
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What happened in the Russian Civil War
Conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. Red vs. White Army.
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What is Autocracy?
a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
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Who was Rasputin?
Siberian peasant and mystic.
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Who were the Kulaks?
Rich peasants in the Russian Empire who owned larger farms and used hired labour. They were their own class.
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Who was Kerensky?
Russian revolutionary who was head of the Provisional Government after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917.
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Who were the Duma?
The elected parliament. Though through establishing this is seemed like the Czar was giving his people power, in reality he could easily get rid of staff if they made any laws or such that he didn't like.
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What was the Revolution of 1905?
A historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire, leading to the establishment of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906.
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What is Industrialization?
The process a society takes on in order to transform itself from an agricultural (agrarian) society to one that can manufacture and mass-produce items