Russia, 1900- 1917 Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• tsar: imperial ruler of russia
• railway: the trans-siberian...
• tundra: arctic wasteland
• serf: peasants owned by their landlords- abolished in 1861
• russification: policy of making non-russians speak russian, wear russian clothes and follow russian customs
• hierarchy: a system of ordering the power and structure of society
• autocracy: nicholas ii believed in this kind of power
• nobility: they made up 1% of russian society
• orthodox: the type of christianity dominant in russia
• okhrana: the secret police
• alexandra: wife of nicholas ii
• revolutionaries: the socialist <blank> wanted to get rid of nicholas ii and mainly appealed to the peasants
• bolsheviks: lenin was the leader of this group who opposed nicholas ii
• bloody sunday: the event that triggered the 1905 revolution
• japan: russia lost a war against them in 1905
• gapon: father <blank> led protestors to the winter palace in 1905
• duma: the russian parliament
• witte: count <blank> helped to write the october manifesto
• rasputin: holy healer
• vodka: banned in russia during ww1 due to high prices
• petrograd: st petersburg was renamed to this to sound 'more russian'
• abdicate: to give up the throne- like nicholas ii did in 1917