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In the imperial household of the last tsar, _____ was the most devoted to autocracy:
b. the tsaritsa, Alexandra.
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On the eve of the unforeseen 1905 Revolution,
b. Russia was virtually seething with every sort of tension.
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The 1905 Revolution began with
a. escalating protests about the “Bloody Sunday” massacre.
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One reason the October Manifesto ended the Revolution:
c. it split the opposition because liberals were fundamentally satisfied.
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Owing to the overwhelming powers granted the emperor, the Fundamental Laws of 6 May 1906
b. generally satisfied the Russian preference for strong rulers.
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The government had to hold __ elections to obtain a Duma with which it could live.
c. three
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On 4 February 1904, without warning the forces of the Empire of Japan struck and sank the fleet at
c. Port Arthur.
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Russia was greatly hampered in the Russo-Japanese War by
a. Japanese military supremacy in every branch of the military.
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Count Witte obtained rather good terms for Russia at the 1905 peace conference in
c. Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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The 1905 Björkö Treaty, personally negotiated and signed by the German and Russian Emperors
b. could never have prevented World War I.
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It cleared the way for Britain to join the Entente
b. 1907 Russo-British Rapprochement on Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.
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The 1908 Buchlau Bargain failed to defuse Austro-Russian enmity because
a. Aerenthal’s promises were negated by the Austrian government.
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Prime Minister Peter Stolypin decided to wager Russia’s future on
b. the strong and the sober in the Russian village.
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About __% of Russian land communes accepted Stolypin’s scheme of land privatization
b. 24%
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Stolypin was assassinated on 14 September 1911 at the Kiev Opera, in the tsar’s presence, by a
a. government double agent.
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The disastrous chain reaction of mobilizations in August 1914 began with that of
c. Russia against Austria in support of Serbia.
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Russia fulfilled her obligations to the Entente in 1914
- a. at the expense of two of her three armies, lost in East Prussia.
- b. by pursuing only her own anti-Austrian agenda.
- c. only after they promised her Constantinople in the event of victory.
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In August 1914, Russia’s regular army numbered almost 1.5 million men, and by December
- a. 3 million.
- b. 6.5 million.
- c. 10.2 million.
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Nicholas II responded to offers of voluntary public wartime support with
b. polite but dismissive refusal.
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In 1915, desperately needed military supplies could not reach Russia owing to
a. Franco-British obsession with the western front at the expense of the eastern.
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In 1915, western Allies forestalled Russia’s sensible consideration of peace with Germany by
a. threatening to cut off vital shipments of weapons and supplies
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While Russia desperately retooled its industry for military production, its forces lost
a. Poland.
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The loss of access to the world grain market
b. created great hardship in the villages, where people began to starve.
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In 1915, the tsar left the state in the hands of Alexandra and Rasputin to
b. restore order among his quarreling generals at army HQ.
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General Brusilov probably could have won the war in 1916, but for
a. cowardice or snobbery of commanders on his right and left.
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As criticism of the tsar and tsarina mounted in late 1916, Duma liberals sought to
b. stop the fighting and bring the troops home for disaster.
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Russian cities began to starve in 1916 because
b. extensive RR breakdown compelled feeding the troops first.
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In the end, imperial Russia collapsed because of strains resulting from
c. the prolonged effort to fight a really industrialized enemy.
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The 1917 February Revolution began when
a. local authorities lost control of babushka food riots in the capital.
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Nicholas II abdicated on his train stopped near Pskov on 15 March 1917 in favor of
b. his brother Michael, who refused the crown.
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The reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II coincided with the Silver Age dominated by
c. Symbolist poetry.
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In the years just prior to the outbreak of war in 1914, Russia agriculture was rapidly
- a. passing into the hands of ambitious peasant farmers.
- b. purchased by foreign interests.
- c. vanishing from the world economy.
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On the eve of the Great 1914-1918 War, Russian science, learning and high culture was
- a. still derivative and imitative of Europe.
- b. fully integrated into European civilization.
- c. farther behind Europe’s than at the time of Peter the Great.
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