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Alexander 2 and repression
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1In what year was there an attempt on the Tsars life ( Alexander II) ?
- A1866
- B1865
2In what month in 1866 was there an attempt on his life?
- ASeptemeber
- BNovemeber
- CApril
- DMarch
3Due to the polish uprising of 1863 what did Alexander assume about the potential assassin?
- AThat he was polish even asking the man " are you Polish?"
- BThat he was naughty and had to be punished
4In fact what was the actual nationality and status of the 'assassin' ?
- Ahe was Russian and middle class and studied at university
- Bhe was a jewish peasant
5In 1865 what personal losses did the Tsar face in his family
- AHis eldest son had died and his wife had withdrew into herself after suffering from T.B.
- Bhe lost his big toe
6who did the Tsar find comfprt with and eventually marry due to this unhappiness
- ACaterina Dolguruki whom he married in 1880, 40 days after the death of the tsarina
- BPerischevich
7When he Married Caterina Dolguruki what affect did this have on his liberal ideas?
- Ahe was isolated from the reformist elements of his own family and so adopted a more conservative and hard line stance
- Bhe became very liberal and almost lost controll
8after A2's assassination attempt recationaries in the Tsar's court took the oppurtunity to argue that the state needed to be purged of 'foreign influences' and the radical thinking that had beed proliferated by the new educational reforms
- ATrue
- BFalse
9in 1866 Alexander responded to reactionaries within his court e.g. Pobedonostev who was the adviser of most reactionary views by employing more conservative ministers select the ministers he employed
- ADmitrii Tolstoy - became minister of education/ public instruction in place of Alexander Golovnin
- BPytor Shuvalov - became head of the Third Section
- CAlexander Timashev - became minister of internal affairs
- DKonstantin Pahlen - became minister of justice
10What did Dmitrii Tolstoy fear about an educate populace
- Ahe believed it was a rebellious one
- Bhe believed it was a gullible one
11Under Dmitrii Tolstoy several changes were made to tighten and lessen the influence and spread of revolutionary ideas in Russia tick all that were made
- AThe Zemstva's influence over education was reduced, and the Orthodox church was restored to prominence
- BFrom 1871 only students from traditional schools could go to university, while those from modern schools could only go to technical institutes
- CIn 1873 the ministry of internal affairs now under Aexander Timashev could forbid certain topics of discussion on top of re-tightened censorship laws
- DA ban was placed on extra-curricula organisations
- EDmitrii Tolstoy vetoed any lectures he deemed were revolutionary
12Shuvalov and Pahlen worked in tandem to track down and make an example of political dissidents Show trais like the trail of 50 and 193 in the years 1877- 78 simply made matters worse by spreading populist ideals so after 1878 polical trails wer done in secret by the military and revolutionaries wre dealt with by the Third Section
- ATrue
- BFalse
13The Polish Uprising of 1863 -4 showed the Regime that minorities were a threat to its position and as a result hostility was adopted towards them
- ATrue
- BFalse
14there was yet anothe assassination attempt o the Tsars life in 1880
- ATrue
- BFalse
15After this attempt Alexander set up the Supreme administrative commission under liberal minded Loris- Melikhov to investigate possible responses to the revolutionaries
- ATrue
- BFalse
16what changes did the Supreme Administrative Commission suggest as a response to the revolutionaries attempt on the Tsars life in 1880
- ASome political prisoners were released
- Bcensorship was relaxed
- CSalt tax was abolished
- DRestrictions on the Zemstva were lessend
- EThe Third Section was abolished , but replaced by a section of the police know as the Okhrana
- FThe commision led by liberal minded Loris Melikhov drew up plans for a Constituent representative assembly whicht he tsar signed but was killed on the same day by The Peoples Will on the 13th March 1881 on hos way to discuss the document with the commission
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