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6. What were some of Nicholas's weaknesses?

  • He was passive
  • He did not believe in the strength of opposition
  • He was indecisive and non-confrontational
  • He only listened to his wife

7. What were the 1906 fundamental laws?

  • Allowed Tsar to use Duma for his own personal gain
  • Tsar's right to dissolve and appoint Duma, commander of army
  • Tsar's right to sit in on the Duma assembly
  • Placed him in charge of all military affairs

8. What impact did World War One have on Russia?

  • Extreme food shortages and increased opposition
  • Inflation and extreme food shortages
  • Inflation and population decrease
  • Economic destruction

9. What was the drawback of the great army programme?

  • The army were too small to have any effective damage
  • The lack of railway made employment difficult
  • Much of the army had become oppositional to the autocratic regime
  • The army were unruly and difficult to train

10. Stolypin, the prime minister, wanted what for the peasant landowners?

  • Investment in the tsar
  • Investment into the agriculture industry
  • To give the lands to the peasants
  • To cultivate more property

11. What were the drawbacks of mass conscription?

  • Less peasants working the lands
  • Less workers in the factories, less product produced
  • Less peasants to work the lands, food shortages
  • Less representation in the Dumas

12. What fraction of the Russian population (men) joined the army in WWI?

  • 1/2
  • 1/5
  • 1/3
  • 1/4

13. What was the "great army programme" of 1913?

  • Increasing the army by 500,000 men
  • Increasing the army by 550,000 men
  • Increasing the army by 450,000 men
  • Increasing the army by 300,000 men

14. By what year could the socialist revolutionaries organise their own workers strikes?

  • 1899
  • 1898
  • 1894
  • 1900

15. By WWI, what was Russia?

  • The fourth largest producer of heavy output
  • The third largest producer of heavy output
  • The fifth largest producer of heavy output
  • The second largest producer of heavy output

16. Why did many workers go on strike during WWI?

  • Wanted higher wages
  • Did not want conscription
  • Angry about food shortages
  • Wanted to leave the war

17. Who were the Zubatov trade unions supervised by?

  • The tsar
  • The government
  • The police
  • Nobody

18. What happened in 1903?

  • A workers strike which catalysed the 1905 revolution
  • A police union strike in which workers were dismissed
  • A workers strike which was forcibly dissolved by the police
  • A police union strike in which the trade unions were closed down

19. Who were the Socialist Revolutionaries?

  • Peasants who were violent and wanted the overthrowing of the tsar
  • A terrorist group of workers
  • Violent peasants who wanted land distribution
  • Peasants who wanted a say in government matters

20. What was the Finnish manifesto?

  • Finnish government was disbanded
  • Finnish army were disbanded
  • Russian imperialism would control the Finnish government
  • Finnish church was moved under the Russian orthodox faith