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Tsarist Russia Quiz 3

Pregunta 1 de 8

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Which of these is NOT a reason that Alexander II made further reforms?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Student riots in St. Petersberg, Moscow and Zazan.

  • The dissatisfaction of peasants after the emancipation.

  • The pressure from Nicholas and Dimitri Milyutin.

  • Demands from the workers.

  • Issues that the emancipation had left demanded dressing.

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Pregunta 2 de 8

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Landlords retained meadows and pasture, while the communal open fields, controlled by the mir, were open to everyone.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 3 de 8

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Which of these were military reforms under Alexander II?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Corporal punishment was abolished.

  • Alexander II made commander-in-chief of the army.

  • Taylor Swift was executed.

  • Service was reduced from 25 to 15 years (9 of which were "in reserve")

  • Military colleges were established to train officers.

  • Deserters would no longer face as severe punishments.

  • Fifteen regional commands and a new code of conduct were established.

  • Army ships were given significant improvements which made them more capable of spotting enemy ships.

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Pregunta 4 de 8

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Which of these were cultural reforms made by Alexander II?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Church had less control of censorship, which was moved to the government.

  • After an ecclesiastical commission in 1862, the Church organisation underwent minor reform, and in 1869, promotion was changed to favour the capable.

  • Many old paintings and architecture was destroyed, leaving Russia in a state of cultural ruin.

  • The Church was given less control over taxation.

  • Non-Russian ethnic groups were given more freedom, for example Poles could practice Catholicism, and Finns were allowed their own representative assembly.

  • Closed Court sessions were introduced in 1885.

  • Bolsheviks were released from prison and given weapons to fight General Kornilov.

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 8

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What was the name of Alexander II's mistress that drew him away from reform?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Alexandra

  • Catrina Dolgoruki

  • Mary Boleyn

  • Oshina Roskalinski

  • Germina Kalfanskalnikovesque

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Pregunta 6 de 8

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Who wrote "What is to be Done?", published in 1863?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Nikolai Chernyshevsky

  • Vladimir Illich Ullyanov

  • Georgi Plekhanov

  • Leo Tolstoy

  • Karl Marx

  • Jane Austen

  • Sergei Starkinskov

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Pregunta 7 de 8

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Which of these are real assassination targets (by the right group in the right year) in Russia in the years 1881-1904?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Revived Populists assassinate Minister for Education, Bogolepov, in 1901.

  • Social Revolutionaries, von Plehve in 1904

  • Social Revoltuionaries, Pytor Stolypin in 1911

  • Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy 1963

  • Land and Liberty, Prince Kraptokin 1903

  • Social Revolutionaries, Spyagin between 1901 and 1905

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Pregunta 8 de 8

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Which of these were policies by Ivan Vyshnegradsky?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Severe grain exportation

  • Conversion of state loans and reduction of interest payments on them.

  • Released a new tariff, the most protectionist in Europe, in 1891.

  • Put the Rouble on the Gold Standard.

  • Introduced closed court sessions.

  • Abolished tax farming, banning companies' rights to collect taxes.

  • Accumulate gold reserves, strengthen the rouble, and prepare for introduction of gold circulation.

  • Decreased foreign investment and made Russia a politically isolated country.

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