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Peasants
Workers
People
Russian Society
Lucky Dip
100
What percentage of Russia's population was made up by peasants?
Around 80%
100
Where had most of the workers in the cities come from?
The countryside - they were peasants moving to the cities to find work and better lives.
100
The Tsar in 1905 was....(full title required)
Nicholas II
100
What is the name given to the type of church in Russia?
Russian Orthodox OR Eastern Orthodox
100
What is Mr Henley's first name?
Bruce
200
After the peasants were set free, how did their lives change?
They didn't really - if anything, they got worse. They certainly didn't improve.
200
What word is used to describe the process of a country moving from a largely rural economy to one based on products produced in factories using machines?
Industrialization
200
Which part of Russia did Rasputin come from?
Siberia
200
How long had the Romanov family ruled Russia? 100yrs, 200yrs or 300yrs?
300yrs
200
The Bolsheviks split from another Revolutionary group. What were they called?
Mensheviks
300
What year were the serfs freed from being slaves?
1861 (Emancipation Act)
300
What were workers forbidden from creating or joining?
Unions
300
What was the name of the hemophiliac Tsarevich?
Alexei
300
What was the word used to make the minority ethnic groups in Russia more like the native Russians?
Russification
300
What was the name of the secret police used by the Tsar?
The Okhrana
400
Which revolutionary group mainly appealed to peasants?
The Socialist Revolutionaries.
400
What was the name of the Priest that organized the workers protest on Bloody Sunday?
Father Gapon
400
Who was the prime minister the Tsar appointed to crush the 1905 Revolution? What was nicknamed after him?
Peter Stolypin (Stolypin's Necktie)
400
What percentage of people owned all the land in Russia?
1.5% of the population owned 100% of the land
400
What was the name of the document that the Tsar issued to effectively stop the 1905 Revolution?
The October Manifesto
500
What part did the peasants play in the 1905 Revolution?
Rioted in the countryside, murdered many landlords.
500
Why did the Bolsheviks target the workers instead of peasants when looking for revolutionary support?
Some of them could read, meaning they could read the protest pamphlets they were creating. They were very unhappy living in the cities under atrocious working conditions.
500
What was the name of the Prince that organized the murder of Rasputin?
Prince Felix Yusupov
500
Order the following sectors of society into correct hierarchal order: 1) Army 2) Church 3) Rich and Middle Classes 4) Peasants 5) Russian Nobility 6) Tsar 7) Workers
1) Tsar 2) Russian Nobility 3) Church 4) Army 5) Rich and Middle Classes 6) Workers 7) Peasants
500
Spell the name of the disease that the Tsar's son suffered from correctly.
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