1. Peter Stolypin believed that the crown's survival depended on what two factors?
restoration of order, and cooperation with the duma.
2. What was the "Stolypin's necktie"?
a noose
3. Economic conditions between 1910 and 1914 in Russia were mixed.
a. What are examples of the postive economic conditions?
Renewed growth of foreign and Russian industries. Increase in iron and coal production. Russia was world's largest grain exporter.
b. What are examples of negative economic conditions?
nine thousand strikes. 17,000 peasant disturbances.
4. List three ways that Russia financed its costs during World War I.
increasing taxes, foreign loans, increasing supply of paper money 6X
5. Why was Rasputin an important figure? How was he regarded by many Russians?
He was the spiritual guru of the Tzar and the Tzarina. Most Russian hated him or were suspicious of him, do to his lewd behavior and wild orgies.
6. List two reasons why workers called for a change of government in the winter of 1916-17.
There were famines and people were starving. It was also a very cold winter and there was a shortage of fuel.
7. Why was the soldiers' mutiny of February 27 so important?
The soldier's mutiny showed that even the soldier's, whose job it is to protect the country, no longer supported the Tsar.
8. How did the Soviet gain the loyality of the soldiers?
The Soviet promised that the soldiers would not be in trouble, and would be immune.
9. List five of the political reforms of the Provisional Government.
outlawed capital punishment, reformed judicial system, granted freedom of assembly, press, speech, and universal suffrage.
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