Question 1

What minister was responsible for enacting reforms for the peasantry following the revolution of 1905?

Accepted Answer

A)   Count Witte
B)   Grigori Rasputin
C)   Alexi Romanov
D)   Stolypin

Question 2

Which of the following statements about Russian Marxism is most accurate?

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A)   Marxist insistence on careful revolutionary organization and a focus on the working class was rapidly assimilated by anarchists and peasant groups.
B)   Marxist doctrines were not imported from the West, but originated among the Russian intelligentsia.
C)   Lenin introduced important innovations in Marxist theory, including the idea that a proletarian revolution could take place without going through a middle-class phase.
D)   Lenin was dedicated to the mass electioneering typical of Western socialist parties.

Question 3

Compare and contrast industrialization in Japan and Russia.

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Question 4

What group did the imperial government appeal to in the reforms following the revolution of 1905?

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A)   Liberals
B)   Workers organizations
C)   Marxists
D)   Anarchists

Question 5

Why did revolution occur in Russia in consequence of industrialization, but not in Japan?

Accepted Answer

Russian political reforms were less sincere, less far-reaching; Western traditions of political radicalism present in Russia; working class able to achieve unionization, political radicalism in Russia, but not in Japan; Japan more secular society, less affected by religious conservatism; aristocracy of Japan reformulated in industrial revolution as new elite with entrepreneurs, samurai; no middle-class development in Russia.

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT a 19th-century Russian novelist?

Accepted Answer

A)   Turgenev
B)   Pavlov
C)   Tolstoy
D)   Dostoevsky

Question 7

Which of the following reflects a significant similarity between Japan and Russia during the period of industrialization prior to 1914?

Accepted Answer

A)   Both experienced significant political revolutions.
B)   Both Japan and Russia had prior experience of imitation: Japan from China and Russia from Byzantium and the West.
C)   Both demonstrated remarkable political flexibility resulting in sweeping transformations of political structure.
D)   Both engaged in territorial acquisitions in the Ottoman Empire.

Question 8

What was the primary difference between the reformed Japanese government and reformed Russian institutions by 1914?

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A)   Japan retained an emperor at the head of government.
B)   Japan created a national parliament.
C)   Japan?s government was elected by a broad majority of the population.
D)   Japan?s government had incorporated business leaders into its governing structure.

Question 9

Which of the following partly accounts for Russia?s lack of significant revolution in 1830 and 1848?

Accepted Answer

A)   Russia lacked a substantial history of autocracy
B)   The absence of a coercive labor system in Russia left scant cause for rebellion
C)   Political repression
D)   Like England, Russia?s history of participatory government and its national parliament forestalled revolution C

Question 10

What was the general goal of the Russian intelligentsia?

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A)   Political freedom, social reform, and retention of Russian culture
B)   Political freedom, retention of the social hierarchy, and increased Westernization
C)   Restriction of civil liberties, honor and deference to the emperor, retention of Russian culture
D)   Radical Westernization as part of a program of increased industrialization

Question 11

In what year were Russian serfs emancipated?

Accepted Answer

A)   1831
B)   1854
C)   1861
D)   1868

Question 12

What nations were linked together in the Holy Alliance that grouped conservative monarchies together in defense of religion and the status quo in 1815?

Accepted Answer

A)   Britain, France, Spain
B)   Spain, Russia, Poland
C)   Russia, Prussia, Austria
D)   Austria, Japan, Russia C

Question 13

Huge industrial combines put together in Japan by the 1890s were called

Accepted Answer

A)   haiku.
B)   terakoya.
C)   zaibatsus.
D)   khitan.

Question 14

Which of the following statements concerning Japanese industrialization prior to World War I is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)   Japan?s workforce was among the highest paid in the world.
B)   Abundant natural resources made Japan virtually self-sufficient as an industrialized nation.
C)   By 1914, Japan had reached the level of industrialization found in the West.
D)   Japan needed exports to pay for machine and resource imports.

Question 15

Compare and contrast Japanese and Russian society prior to industrialization.

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Question 16

What was the name of the Russian revolt inspired by Western values in 1825?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Decembrist ring
B)   The November rebellion
C)   Pushkin?s revolt
D)   Pugachev rebellion

Question 17

Compare and contrast the political reforms undertaken in Japan and Russia prior to and during industrialization.

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Russia: abolition of serfdom, establishm...

Question 18

The Duma was

Accepted Answer

A)   the confrontation between radial workers and the tsarist army in 1905.
B)   a system of collective farms for peasants introduced after 1905.
C)   a national parliament created in the aftermath of the 1905 revolution.
D)   the imperial council that took over government after the abdication of the tsar in 1905.

Question 19

Russia?s fear about Westernization in the first decades of the 19th century was rooted in

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A)   concern about British invasion.
B)   the French Revolution.
C)   dislike of Western dress.
D)   worry over loss of Poland.

Question 20

Which of the following statements concerning the development of Russia and Japan to 1900 is NOT accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)   Neither Russia nor Japan rivaled the industrial might of the West by 1900.
B)   Both nations gained sufficient power to wield important political and military influence in the colonial scramble.
C)   Russia and Japan did launch significant industrialization by 1914.
D)   Both Russia and Japan achieved both economic autonomy and a share in the West?s core position.

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What minister was responsible for enacting reforms for the peasantry following the revolution of 1905?

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Which of the following statements about Russian Marxism is most accurate?

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Compare and contrast industrialization in Japan and Russia.

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What group did the imperial government appeal to in the reforms following the revolution of 1905?

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Why did revolution occur in Russia in consequence of industrialization, but not in Japan?

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Which of the following reflects a significant similarity between Japan and Russia during the period of industrialization prior to 1914?

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What was the primary difference between the reformed Japanese government and reformed Russian institutions by 1914?

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Which of the following partly accounts for Russia?s lack of significant revolution in 1830 and 1848?

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Which of the following statements concerning Japanese industrialization prior to World War I is correct?

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What was the name of the Russian revolt inspired by Western values in 1825?

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Compare and contrast the political reforms undertaken in Japan and Russia prior to and during industrialization.

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