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National Minorities, Tsar Alexander II, III and Nicholas II
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- 1What % of Russian citizens were actually Russian nationals?50%
- 2What other nationalities were there?Ukrainian
Polish
White Russian
Jewish
German
Latvian
Finnish - 3When was 'The Polish Revolt'?1863
- 4What were the four main terms of Russification?Russian language
Russian culture
Russian customs
Russian Orthodox religion - 5Which three non-Russian territories were Russian officials brought in to run regional governments?Poland
Latvia
Finland - 6How did the Russian government react to 'The Polish Revolt of 1863'?100's of Polish noblemen exiled to Siberia; their states offered to migrating Russians
Polish serfs offered more generous Emancipation terms in order to win their loyalty to the tsarist state. - 7How significant was the size of the Ukrainian population in terms of the total Russian Empire?It was the second-largest ethnic group.
- 8What nationality were the Cossacks?Ukranian
- 9What did the decree passed by Alexander III on the Ukrainian people ban?Publication of books in Ukrainian scripture
Use of the Ukrainian language in the theater. - 10How many Jewish people were there in the Russian Empire by the 1880's?Approx. 5 million
- 11Where was the 'Pale of Settlement' located?The Eastern borders of Poland, the Ukraine, and White Russia.
- 12Give one example of an event where Jews were forced to leave a Russian city and emigrate to the Pale of Settlement?In 1891, a group of Jews were expelled from Moscow.
- 13When were 'Pogroms' most frequently carried out?During the 1880's, in the cities.
- 14What was the stance of the Russian authorities on the matter of 'Pogroms'?Local authorities and the police were either involved themselves, or faked nonchalance.
Agents from the Minister of Interior were supportive of Pogroms, and would even help to plan them alongside anti-Semitic groups. - 15Which two nations did mass numbers of Russian Jews immigrate to?USA and western Europe.
- 16In 1897, what was the name of the unions being formed by some Russian Jews?Bund(s)
- 17Name four leading members of the Bolshevik Party who were Jewish.Trotsky
Martov
Zinoviev
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