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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?
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?
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