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The Making of Modern Russia, 1855–1991

Repression of opposition in town and countryside

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Recall questions on the soviets of 1905 and their closure, the Moscow rising, the punitive expeditions, Stolypin's field courts martial, and the change to the electoral law.

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What were the workers' councils formed in the two capitals in 1905?

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What was the Vyborg Appeal?

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What was the Moscow rising of December 1905?

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  1. 1

    What were the workers' councils formed in the two capitals in 1905?

    Model answer

    The soviets: workers' councils formed during the revolution; the government closed them, and the Moscow Soviet's uprising was crushed in December 1905.

  2. 2

    How did the government repress opposition after 1905?

    Model answer

    It closed the Soviets, arrested leaders such as Trotsky, and sent punitive expeditions into the countryside.

  3. 3

    What was the Vyborg Appeal?

    Model answer

    The 1906 manifesto by some 200 deputies of the dissolved first Duma, mainly Kadets, urging refusal of taxes and conscripts, for which its signatories were barred from future Dumas.

  4. 4

    What happened to the St Petersburg Soviet?

    Model answer

    Its executive was arrested in December 1905 after fifty days, which removed the leadership before the Moscow rising.

  5. 5

    What was the Moscow rising of December 1905?

    Model answer

    An armed insurrection in the Presnya district crushed by loyal Guards regiments with artillery at a cost of over a thousand lives.

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    What were the punitive expeditions?

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    Military detachments sent into the countryside and along the Trans-Siberian in 1906 with orders to shoot, which killed thousands without trial.

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