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AQA A Level History Russia ExamQuestions with Answers
% of Russians peasants in 1917 - Answer>> 80%
What forces helped keep Nicholas II in power? - Answer>> The
Okhrana (secret police), the Imperial Guard and the Cossacks
Who were the opposition groups to Nicholas II in 1917? -
Answer>> Social Democrats - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks,
Social Revolutionaries - Left and Right, Liberals - Oktoberists and
Kadets
What was inflation in 1917 and why was it caused? - Answer>>
300% and caused by abandonment of the Gold Standard and
printing excess money for WW1
How many people on strike and where in October 1916? -
Answer>> 100,000 in Petrograd
What happened to wages and food prices between 1914 - 1916?
- Answer>> Food prices quadrupled but wages only doubled.
By 1916 how much of their food and fuel requirements were
Moscow and Petrograd receiving? - Answer>> 1/3
What problems did urbanisation cause in 1917? - Answer>>
Overcrowding, disease, poor living conditions.
Which bodies should have given workers a voice in government
but didn't? - Answer>> Zemstva and Duma
,What and when was the Lena Goldfields Massacre and what did it
lead to? - Answer>> 1912, goldminers in Lena went on strike
due to poor working conditions and hundreds shot by Imperial
Guard - led to 3 million workers striking in the 2 years leading up
to WW1.
In what year did Nicholas II go to the army and in what position? -
Answer>> 1915, Commander in Chief
Who did Nicholas II leave in charge while he was at war and what
problems did this cause? - Answer>> Tsarina Alexandria, who
was highly influenced by the disreputable mystic Rasputin who
supposedly cured Alexi of haemophilia - rumours of scandal made
Tsar look weak.
What was the change in the cost of the war from 1914 to 1918? -
Answer>> In 1914 cost 1.5billion rubles, by 1918 cost 14.5
billion rubles
How many Russian conscripts in WW1? - Answer>> 15 million
What happened on 18th February 1917? - Answer>> 20,000
workers from the Putilov steel works went on strike in Petrograd
What happened on the 23rd February 1917? - Answer>>
International Womens Day - tens of thousands of women joined
strikers in Petrograd
What happened on the 25th February 1917? - Answer>>
Petrograd virtually in general strike as 200,000 workers join strike
- Head of police, Shalfeev killed while trying to hold back
protestors.
,Who was the President of the Duma and when did he refuse to
shut it down? - Answer>> Rodzianko - 26th February 1917.
What and when did the Duma become during the February
Revolution and who was it led by? - Answer>> 27th February
1917 - Provisional Committee, headed by Kerensky.
When and how did the Tsar lose support from the army during
Feb Revolution 1917? - Answer>> On 27th February 1917 the
Volynskii regiment mutinied and on 28th February 1917
Krondstadt sailors mutinied.
What happened on the 28th February 1917? - Answer>>
Soviets formed the Provisional Executive Committee, the Tsar's
train diverted by railworkers, Krondstadt sailors mutinied and
Order No 1 declared Petrograd Soviets had authority over
soldiers and sailors, not Provisional Government.
When did Tsar Nicholas II abdicate? - Answer>> 2nd March
1917
When and by whom was Rasputin killed? - Answer>>
December 1916, by a group of conservative nobles.
How much did goods distributed by rail fall by from 1913 to 1917?
- Answer>> 30 million tonnes of goods distributed by rail in
1913, fell to 19 million tonnes by 1917
How many working railway trains were there running in 1914
compared to 1917? - Answer>> 20,000 working railway engines
1914, 9,200 by 1917.
, Population rise in Petrograd between 1914 - 1917? - Answer>>
2.1 million in 1914 - 2.7 million in 1917
How many went on strike in Moscow and Petrograd in January
1916? - Answer>> 30,000 in Moscow, 145,000 in Petrograd
What was the Dual Authority made up of? - Answer>>
Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviets
Why was the Provisional Government weakened from the
beginning? - Answer>> No elected so lacked legitimacy, too
cautious to act against social, economic and war problems.
Successes of Dual Authority - Answer>> Removed Okhrana
and created a people's militia, wanted a democratic Constituent
Assembly election, created civil and religious rights, recognised
trade unions and amnesty for the Tsar's political prisoners.
When did Lenin return to Russia the first time? - Answer>> 3rd
April 1917
Goals of the April Theses - Answer>> Abandon cooperation
with other parties as Bolsheviks only true revolutionaries,
overthrow Provisional Government, transfer power to the workers,
all authority passed to Soviets.
Popular slogans of the April Theses - Answer>> 'Peace, Bread,
Land!' 'All Power to the Soviets!'
When was the July Days? - Answer>> 3rd - 6th July 1917
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