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| What was the death rate in russia in 1900? |
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| What popular ideology summed up peasant views of the Tsar before 1905 |
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| That of the 'Tsar Batyushka' - little father |
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| When would the 'sacred bond' between Tsar and peasant be broken? (intro qs) |
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| What quote sumarises the effect of the army on Russia by 1905? |
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| Edward Crankshaw - russia enjoyed the 'peace and tranquility of the grave' |
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| When was the Statue of State Security? |
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| How many people were the Okhrana sending to exile in siberia by the late 1880's |
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| How big was the Russian army in the C19th? |
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| 1.5M men in peacetime - consuming 45% of government expenditure |
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| How brutal was military discipline in the russian army? |
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| 1M men died in peacetime between 1825-55 |
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| How was the mobilization of the russian army made more effective? |
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| The division of russia into 15 military districts between 1862-74 |
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| Define - 'The ideology of tsarism' |
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| 'Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality' |
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| What did Pipes say about Pobodonostsev? |
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| He was the 'de facto minister of Religion' as he was both head of the Holy Synod and chief advisor to the tsar |
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| How did russification affect russian schools? |
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| Half were put under direct church control and all lessons had to be taught in russian |
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| How did 'russification' effect politics? |
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| finish parliament lost all of its autonomous powers and forced migration of ethnic Russians to muslim areas |
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| When were the v narod - 'Go to the People's? |
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| What did Maxim Ghorky say about the impact of the populists on the peasants? |
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| they 'bounced off the peasants like peas from a wall' |
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| In what way were the Social Democrats split? |
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| between regional factions and universities; between bolsheviks and mensheviks (post 1903) |
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| How were the Russian Liberals split? |
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| between radicals and conservatives as well as urban, zemstvo and industrialist liberals |
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| In what way were the Social Revolutionaries largely unformed by 1905? |
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| The could not claim a membership of 50,000 until their first official congress in 1906 |
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| In what way were the SDs and Liberals unformed by 1905? |
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| The SDs were not revolutionary until the emergence of the bolsheviks; the liberals had no nation-wide organisation or leader |
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| Which russian liberal leader 'thank[ed] God for the Tsar'? |
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| Struve - 'for he saved us from the people' |
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