TSARIST AND COMMUNIST RUSSIA 2026 FINAL
PAPER COMPLETE REVISION QUESTIONS WITH
FULL SOLUTIONS
◉ 1856. Answer: Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War
◉ 1861. Answer: abolition of serfdom
◉ 1860. Answer: creation of state bank. reform of tax collection
◉ 1862-74. Answer: military reforms
◉ 1863. Answer: Polish revolt
◉ 1863. Answer: university statute
◉ 1863. Answer: publication of Chernyshevsky's what is to be done?
◉ 1864. Answer: local self-government Zemstva established
,◉ 1864. Answer: judiciary reform
◉ 1864. Answer: elementary school reform
◉ 1865. Answer: censorship reforms
◉ 1866. Answer: assassination of Alexander II
◉ 1867-69. Answer: church reform
◉ 1870. Answer: city/town government reform and the introduction
of dumas
◉ 1872. Answer: Russian publication of Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital'
◉ 1874. Answer: military service reforms
◉ 1874. Answer: Populists begin 'Go to the People'
◉ 1876-79. Answer: revolutionary populist organisation: Land and
Liberty
, ◉ 1877-78. Answer: Russo-Turkish War
◉ 1879. Answer: terrorist organistation, The People's Will,
established
◉ 1881. Answer: assassination of Alexander II
◉ 1881-2. Answer: pogroms:May Laws
◉ 1881-2. Answer: counter-reform in censorship
◉ 1883. Answer: creation of Peasant Land Bank
◉ 1883. Answer: emancipation of Labour founded by Plekhanov
◉ 1884. Answer: counter-reform in education
◉ 1884. Answer: counter-reform in the Church
◉ 1885. Answer: Nobles' Land Bank; abolition of poll tax
◉ 1885-1900. Answer: Russification in borderlands