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6. How did the internal passport idea prevent radical ideas spreading?

  • It controlled people into certain areas ; preventing radical ideas spreading also
  • The passport idea wasn't used to prevent radical ideas spreading

7. Why were the Gendarmes not very useful?

  • A lot of Gendarmes took bribes
  • After 20 years active pursuit they only caught 4113 despite claims that "revolutionaries were everywhere"
  • They were expensive to fund from the Treasury

8. What happpened to the People's Will after 1881?

  • Alexander III successfully captured and executed all of the People's Will
  • They escaped from Russia into Germany
  • They joined the SR

9. What were the number of strikes between 1894 and 1904 like?

  • The number of strikes dropped by 1,400 strikes
  • In 1894 there were 17,000 strikes and this rose to 90,000 strikes by 1904
  • The number of strikes was stagnant

10. In 1880 Alexander III created the Gendarmes, how many political criminals did they catch between 1880 and 1901?

  • They caught 10,000 political criminals
  • They caught 4113 political criminals
  • They caught 10 political criminals

11. What affect did the policy of Russification have upon ethnic minorities?

  • The majority of ethnic minorities fled Russia for Germany
  • They became more disloyal and more likely to join radical groups
  • They became more loyal

12. How did the peasantry respond to the Land Captains introduced in 1889?

  • They responded with the Red Cockeral years between 1902-7 where landowners and bailiffs were murdered and land taken illegally
  • They didn't react
  • They created a petition for the Tsar showing their discontent