Which of these is NOT a reason that Alexander II made further reforms?
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.
Landlords retained meadows and pasture, while the communal open fields, controlled by the mir, were open to everyone.
Which of these were military reforms under Alexander II?
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.
Which of these were cultural reforms made by Alexander II?
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.
What was the name of Alexander II's mistress that drew him away from reform?
Alexandra
Catrina Dolgoruki
Mary Boleyn
Oshina Roskalinski
Germina Kalfanskalnikovesque
Who wrote "What is to be Done?", published in 1863?
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Vladimir Illich Ullyanov
Georgi Plekhanov
Leo Tolstoy
Karl Marx
Jane Austen
Sergei Starkinskov
Which of these are real assassination targets (by the right group in the right year) in Russia in the years 1881-1904?
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
Which of these were policies by Ivan Vyshnegradsky?
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.