Russia 1855-1964 quiz

• When did Alexander II become Tsar?

  1855
• What was Alexander II also known as?

  The Tsar Liberator.
• When was the Emancipation Edict enacted?


  1861
• How long did redemption payments last?

  49 years
• What was the interest rate on redemption payments?

  6%
• What controlled the peasant's lives and movement?

  The Mir
• When was the January Uprising?

  1863
• Who was involved in the January Uprising?

  Poland, Lithuania.
• How many were executed following the January Uprising?

  396
• How many were exiled to Siberia following the January Uprising?

  18,672
• When were Alexander II's educational and judiciary reforms introduced?

  1864
• When were the Zemstva introduced?

  1864
• When did AII enact censorship reform?

  1865
• When was the 1st assassination attempt on Alexander II?

  1866
• When was the 2nd assassination attempt on Alexander II?

  1874
• How many were involved in the Narodnik Movement?

  2000 - 3000
• When was the Narodnik movement?

  1873 to 1874
• What was the Narodnik movement of intellectuals going to the countryside called?

  'Going to the People'.
• Who was the main person behind the 'Going to the People' movement?

  Lavrov
• Which opposition group formed out of the 'Going to the People' movement in 1876?

  Land and Liberty.
• What did the 1876 Ems Decree ban?

  Use of Ukrainian language.
• Who started the 'Land and Liberty' populist movement, which was crushed by the government, in 1876?

  Bakunin, Lavrov, Chernyshevsky.
• When was the Russo-Turkish War?


  1877-1878
• Who was the General of the Interior under AII that released hundreds of political prisoners?

  General Melikov
• When was Alexander II assassinated?

  1881
• Which group assassinated Alexander II?

  The People's Will
• When was the People's Will formed?

  1879
• Who was the reactionary advisor to Alexander III?

  Pobedonostsev
• Which principles formed the basis of Tsarist rule?

  Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Russification.
• When was the Peasant Land Bank introduced?

  1882
• When was the Poll Tax abolished?

  1886
• Who was the Minister of Finance under Alexander III?

  Bunge
• Under which ruler were redemption payments ended?

  AIII
• What year did Bunge resign after being accused of being too incompetent and liberal?

  1886
• When were laws to protect children in industry and restrict women and children from working night shifts enacted?

  1884 and 1885
• When was the assassination attempt on Alexander III


  1887
• When were Land Captains introduced?

  1889
• When did the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway begin?

  1891
• What forcefull tactics did Alexander III and Nicholas II employ against the Jews?

  The use of Pogroms
• How many died in the 1891-92 famine?

  400,000