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  How strong was the Tsarist regime?

In 1914, since the monarchy still survived, it is possible to argue that it was still strong enough to survive - but it had serious weaknesses which World War One was to expose.

  

Nicholas II's Government

     

Russia in 1914

  

Strengths of the Monarchy

  

  

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Nicholas II's Government
Write about:

•   The nature and personality of Nicholas II

•   Family circumstances

•   The system of government/ how it worked

•   Stolypin's government

•   The Dumas

Russia in 1914
Write about:

•   Size and population

•   Different races/ nationalities

•   Problems with the economy

•   Society - problems in the towns

•   Society - problems in the countryside

Strengths of the Monarchy
Write about:

•   Which groups supported the Tsar and why

•   the Okhrana

•   the Cossacks

Opposition groups
Write about the following - who they were and what they believed:

•   Liberals (Kadets)

•   Social Revolutionaries

•   Social Democrats (Bolsheviks and Mensheviks)

The 1905 revolution

Write briefly about:

•   its causes (inc the war of 1904)

•   the events ('Bloody Sunday' and the 'Soviets')

•   The October Manifesto

•   How the Tsar repressed the revolution