Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.7: The Russian Revolution (1855–1924) Questions
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What event on 22 January 1905 saw troops fire on a peaceful crowd of workers petitioning the tsar, killing over 100 people?
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Who commanded the Red Army as Commissar for War during the Russian Civil War?
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Which Bolshevik social reform, introduced in 1918-1920, was genuinely radical for its time compared to most of the world?
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Which reform of 1861 freed roughly 23 million serfs from legal bondage to landowners, but burdened them with decades of redemption payments?
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Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by members of which revolutionary group?
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Which finance minister, appointed under Alexander III, drove industrial growth including the Trans-Siberian Railway and later negotiated the October Manifesto?
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What did the Fundamental Laws of April 1906 do?
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What event in March 1921 showed that the Bolsheviks used coercion even against former supporters demanding free elections?
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Who organised the armed Bolshevik detachments that seized key buildings in Petrograd on the night of 24-25 October 1917?
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Which treaty, signed in March 1918, took Soviet Russia out of the First World War at the cost of about a third of its population and farmland?
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What action did Stolypin take in June 1907 that is often described by historians as a 'coup'?
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What did Nicholas II agree to in the October Manifesto of 1905?
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What was the popular nickname given to the executions carried out under Stolypin's field court-martials?
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What event directly triggered the strikes and protests in Petrograd in February 1917 that led to Nicholas II's abdication?
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Under the New Economic Policy (NEP) introduced in March 1921, which sectors remained under state control, unlike small trade and agriculture?
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Discuss the view that the February Revolution of 1917 was a spontaneous, leaderless uprising, while the October seizure of power was a deliberate, organised Bolshevik operation.
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Evaluate the claim that Stolypin should be remembered primarily as a reformer who gave Russia its best chance at peaceful change, rather than as a ruthless enforcer of Tsarist repression.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the October Manifesto and the Dumas represented a genuine change in how Russia was governed between 1905 and 1917?
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To what extent was the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 the decisive cause of the 1905 Revolution, rather than long-term social and political tensions?
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Evaluate the claim that the October Manifesto of 1905 represented a genuine shift towards constitutional government rather than a tactical retreat by the tsarist regime.
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