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🕊️ Alexander II's Reforms – A-level
History · A-level — emancipation of the serfs, zemstva, legal and military reform, and reaction under Alexander II
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Defeat in which war convinced Alexander II that Russia needed major reform?
The Crimean War
The Russo-Persian War
The Russo-Japanese War
The Napoleonic Wars
20s
In 1856 Alexander II told Moscow nobles it was better to abolish serfdom from above. What did he fear otherwise?
Invasion by Britain and France
A noble coup against the Tsar
Collapse of the Orthodox Church
Widespread peasant revolt
20s
Which revolutionary group organised the assassination of Alexander II in 1881?
Land and Liberty
People's Will
Black Repartition
Emancipation of Labour Group
20s
Under the 1861 emancipation, over how many years were peasants to repay the state through redemption payments?
99 years
10 years
49 years
25 years
20s
After 1861, who was given the land allotment and held collectively responsible for redemption payments?
Each peasant household alone
The mir (village commune)
The local zemstvo
The former landowner
30s
What were the zemstva created in 1864?
A national parliament with legislative power
Secret police units in the provinces
Elected local councils for districts and provinces
Peasant communes that shared out land
20s
Which feature did the 1864 judicial reform introduce to Russia?
Judges elected by the village commune
Closed trials based on written evidence
Trial by jury for serious criminal cases
Judges removable by provincial governors
30s
Milyutin's 1874 Military Service Law set standard active service at how many years?
3 years
6 years
15 years
10 years
30s
Which event of 1866 led Alexander II to replace Golovnin with the conservative Dmitry Tolstoy as education minister?
Karakozov's attempt to shoot the Tsar
The Trial of the 193 populists
The outbreak of the Polish Revolt
The Going to the People movement
30s
Which proposals had Alexander II approved on the day he was assassinated in 1881?
Witte's plan for state-led industrialisation
Loris-Melikov's plan for elected consultative commissions
Speransky's plan for an elected State Duma
Stolypin's plan to break up the commune
30s