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Reforms of Alexander II
Early Revolutionaries
Reforms of Count Witte
Lenin
Bloody Sunday and Aftermath
100
This major reform took place in 1861; many involved were still left with enormous debts.
What is the emancipation of the serfs?
100
This term describes the rise in revolutionary sentiment in Russia, especially among students.
What is populism?
100
This industrial achievement of Witte allowed Russia to catch up with Great Britain and other countries industrially.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
100
Lenin was inspired by this socialist thinker and author of The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx?
100
This building was the location of the Bloody Sunday massacre.
What is the Winter Palace?
200
This country’s attempted revolution was suppressed in 1830, after which it essentially became a Russian province.
What is Poland?
200
This was the early revolutionary who is largely responsible for the initial spread of revolutionary sentiment in Russia.
What is Alexander Herzen?
200
Witte formed a partnership with this country by pursuing loans and investment from them.
What is France?
200
Lenin was involved with this revolutionary group.
What is the "Russian Social Democratic Party"?
200
Conflict with this country led to widespread political dissatisfaction in Russia.
What is Japan?
300
These local bodies replaced the authority of landowners.
What are village communes?
300
The “Land and Freedom” program attempted to convince this group of people to revolt.
Who are the peasants?
300
In response to Witte’s economic policy, this group argued for laissez-faire capitalism.
Who are the Cadets (Constitutional Democratic Party)?
300
After his revolutionary group split, Lenin called his group this, from the Russian for “majority.”
What are the "Bolsheviks"?
300
This chief minister was hired to replace Count Witte after the events of Bloody Sunday.
Who is Stolypin?
400
These were the names for provincial councils run by nobles with regional administrative powers.
What are "zemstvos"?
400
After the “Land and Freedom” program split, this was the new name for the violent revolutionary group.
What is "The People's Will"?
400
Witte employed this technique of backing up paper currency with precious metals.
What is the "gold standard?"
400
This 1902 work established Lenin as a socialist intellectual.
What is "What is to be done"?
400
This monk gained a disproportionate amount of political influence for his supposed healing powers.
Who is Rasputin?
500
This is the year the peasant’s debts were finally paid off.
What is 1906?
500
This early terrorist attempted to assassinate a powerful governor in one of the first acts of Russian terrorism.
Who is Vera Zasulich?
500
Peasants were dissatisfied because these people made most of the profits on the industrial movement.
Who are foreign capitalists investors?
500
This was Lenin’s socialist mentor after his return from Siberia.
Who is Gregory Plehkanov?
500
This was the name for the legislative body Nicholas II formed after Bloody Sunday.
What is the "Duma"?