Russian Society
Random things about Russia
Pillars of Autocracy
Marxist Revolution
Russian Civil Service
100
This was the type of government in Russia at the time of the Tsar
What is an autocracy?
100
This weapon was used in the assassination of Alexander II, the grandfather of Tsar Nicholas
What is a bomb?
100
The process where people within small circles give positions of power to their friends and family
What is nepotism?
100
The Social Democrats wanted to take power from the Tsar and give it to these people
Who are the masses or workers?
100
This class of people made up a majority of the civil service and government
What is the nobility?
200
Russia's production of food mainly relied on this group of people
What are serfs or peasants?
200
These two bodies of water form the borders on the East and the West of the Russian Empire
What are the Bering Straits and Black Sea?
200
Opponents of the Tsar were sent here where they would not be able to interfere and promote revolutionary ideas
What is Siberia?
200
This group of Social Democrats wanted a gradual revolution led by the workers
What are the Mensheviks?
200
Civil Servants were paid so poorly paid that they had to make money in others ways
What is accepting bribery?
300
Russia's agricultural system resembled this time period at the turn of the 20th century
What is the Middle Ages?
300
Russia originated from an alliance with these types of people from Nordic countries
What are vikings?
300
The religion in Russia with the Tsar as it's head
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
300
This group of Social Democrats wanted immediate revolution led by a dictatorship of middle class workers
Who are the Bolsheviks?
300
The size of the Empire of Russia made the action difficult to administer and caused the government to be poor
What is taxation?
400
Revolutionists wanted this type of document that was used in Western European Countries to limit the powers of their leaders
What is a constitution?
400
Method used to strengthen Russian Culture while banning minority languages and religions
What is Russification?
400
The group that would censor speech and infiltrate revolutionary groups to prevent ideas from spreading
What is the Okhrana?
400
The peasants were not coordinated enough to start a revolution on their own, so Social Democrats focused on these people to start their revolution
Who are city workers?
400
Instead of competence, civil servants were promoted based on this.
What are years of service?
500
What are 2 of the minority groups that existed in Russia alongside the Russian majority
What are the Poles, Germans, Slavs, or Asians?
500
Russia was attacked by these invaders from the East between the 13th and 14th century
Who are the Mongols or the Golden Horde?
500
The Tsar would use the army to put down these movements that had the power to shut down the production of an entire city
What is a general strike?
500
Who is Lenin?
500
The slow state of economic progress in Russia can be blamed on civil servants not valuing this type of economic progress
What is industrialization?