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In the 12th century AD the ancestors of the Russians were divided into
c. three distinct languages.
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Mongol-Tatars and appanage Russians influenced one another relatively little because
b. they were both in the pupae stage of civilized development.
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Peter’s decision to Europeanize his country was decisive and revolutionary because
- a. the state was incomparably more powerful than any other institution.
- b. the personality of the tsar was the main force in Russia.
- c. prior to his reign western influence was unknown in Russia.
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Empress Anne’s picked successor, two-month-old Ivan VI,
a. reigned for less than a year and spent the rest of his short life in prison.
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The first Russian ruler seriously to consider establishing a university in Russia was
b. Elizabeth.
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Russian literary culture, prior to the reign of Catherine II, might be likened to
a. a great birch tree, standing on its own.
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Catherine’s 1785 Charter to the Nobility, compared to the “Night of 5 August 1789,” exposes
c. the insincerity of her insistence that “Russia is a European country!”
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After the Wars of Liberation, Alexander I did not grant a constitution to the
c. Russian Empire.
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By mid-19th century, Russia’s 67m of people showed a social change of
a. serfdom having peaked and in decline as a % of population.
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