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game[0][0]=new Array ("The urban equivalent of the Zemstva were called the...?","Dumas","Mirs","Volosts","Provosts","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][1]=new Array ("Alexander's Minister for War and perhaps his greatest reformer was...?","Milyutin","Pobodonostev","Shuvalov","Benckendorff","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][2]=new Array ("This war highlighted the disastrous state of the Russian army and sparked off the whole reform process","Crimean","Russo-Japanese","Anglo-German","Franco-Prussian","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][3]=new Array ("Russia’s disastrous war with this country in 1904-5 highlighted the limits of the military reforms put in place by Alexander","Japan ","Germany","Poland","China","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][4]=new Array ("This case saw a revolutionary terrorist acquitted in Alexander's reformed courts, and convinced him that 'All I have to do to make an enemy is to do him a service'","Zasulich ","Herzen","Chernyshevsky","Plekahnov","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][5]=new Array ("The reforming minister in charge of educational reforms during Alexander's reign","Golvonin ","Reutern","Milyutin","Tolstoy","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][6]=new Array ("This reactionary took over as education minister following the assassination attempt of 1866 and tightened control over the school curriculum","Tolstoy ","Reutern","Milyutin","Golvonin","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][7]=new Array ("The reformist minister of finance in the reign of Alexander II","Reutern","Milyutin","Golvonin","Tolstoy","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][8]=new Array ("This group believed that Russia needed reforming, but not on Western lines","Slavophiles ","Westernisers","Slavophobes","Utopians","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][9]=new Array ("The father of the revolutionary movements of Alexander’s reign, who wrote 'What is to be Done?' (1862)","Chernyshevsky ","Herzen","Mikhailov ","Plekahnov","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][10]=new Array ("Because Alexander’s political opponents were kept out of the system, they became increasingly radical and idealistic. In other words, they became…?","Utopian ","Bitter","Idiots","Pratts","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][11]=new Array ("Reformer and author of the reformist newspaper 'The Bell' whose readership fell sharply after the assassination attempt on Alexander in 1866","Herzen ","Mikhailov ","Plekahnov ","Chernyshevsky ","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][12]=new Array ("The appointment of this reactionary as head of the secret police after 1866 was another indication that the reform era was over","Shuvalov ","Loris","Milyutin","Pavlona","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][13]=new Array ("Elena…?, Alexander’s aunt and a great reforming influence","Pavlona ","Loris","Milyutin","Shuvalov ","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[0][14]=new Array ("Head of the secret police early in Alexander’s reign who argued that 'Serfdom is a powder keg under the state, and is the more dangerous because of the fact that the army itself consists of peasants'","Benckendorff ","Shuvalov ","Golvonin","Orlov","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][0]=new Array ("Alexander was known - rightly or wrongly - as the Tsar...?","Liberator","Refrigerator","Terminator","Alligator","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][1]=new Array ("This Grand Duke was a great reforming influence on Alexander in his early years","Constantine","Libertine","Aubergine","Florentine","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][2]=new Array ("This committee was set up in 1857 to look into the possibility of reforming serfdom","Orlov ","Milyutin","Shuvalov","Benckendorff","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][3]=new Array ("This person gave economic reasons for Emancipation by saying that 'in the economic sphere, serfdom brings the whole state into an abnormal situation'","Kavelin ","Javelin","Hairpin","Drawingpin","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][4]=new Array ("The reactionary leader of the Third Section in the latter part of Alexander's reign","Shuvalov","Milyutin","Pavlona","Orlov","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][5]=new Array ("In which year was the Emancipation Statute passed?","1861","1863","1865","1873","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][6]=new Array ("An assassination attempt on Alexander in this year confirmed his move away from reform","1866","1876","1856","1855","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][7]=new Array ("This revolt of 1825 highlighted how dangerous the Peasantry were if left unhappy","Decembrist","Octobrist","Septemberist","Januarythefirstist","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][8]=new Array ("Alexander's appointment of this man as his son's tutor was perhaps one of the most reactionary things he did!","Pobodonostev","Nazimov ","Orlov","Loris","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][9]=new Array ("He produced a report recommending Emancipation without land in 1857","Nazimov ","Orlov","Pobodonostev","Loris","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][10]=new Array ("The reactionary minister who diluted the Emancipation Statute drawn up by Milyutin and Rostovstev","Panin ","Loris","Orlov","Pobodonostev","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][11]=new Array ("A riot in this area in 1862 highlighted the fact that many serfs did not regard the Emancipation Statute as having gone far enough","Bezdna ","Moscow","Kiev","St. Petersburg","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][12]=new Array ("This landowner gave a moral reason for Emancipation by saying that 'the abolition of the right to dispose of people like objects or cattle is as much our liberation as theirs' ","Koshelyov ","Kropotkin","Mikhailov","Loris","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][13]=new Array ("Which slavophile said with regard to the Crimean war that 'We were defeated not by the external forces of the Western Alliance but by our own internal weaknesses'","Samarin","Tamarind","Tarragon","Seraphim","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[1][14]=new Array ("This Tsar described serfdom as a 'flagrant evil' and stated that 'the only answer is thus to prepare the way for a gradual transition to a different order'.","Nicholas I","Nicholas II","Alexander II","Alexander III","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][0]=new Array ("What was the family name of the Russian royal family?","Romanov","Plekhanov","Shuvalov","Pushov","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][1]=new Array ("The People's Will were a terrorist organisation led by...?","Mikhailov","Bakunin","Shuvalov","Plekhanov","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][2]=new Array ("The revolt of the Poles this year shook Alexander's conviction that reform was the best way forward","1863","1866","1876","1857","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][3]=new Array ("Who once described Russia as 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'?","Churchill","Wilde","Shakespeare","Lily Savage","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][4]=new Array ("In what year were the Zemstva established?","1864","1866","1858","1880","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][5]=new Array ("Alexander's affair with Catherine....? distanced him further from his son and heir","Dolgorouky","Pullheredov","Slapperassov","Gorky","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][6]=new Array ("Who led the Black Partition movement, an offshoot of Land and Liberty?","Plekhanov","Molotov","Lenin","Bakunin","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][7]=new Array ("This book by Chernyhevsky became the Bible of revolutionaries everywhere","What is to be Done?","What's Going On?","What's Going Down?","Done and Dusted","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][8]=new Array ("What was the Russian name for the Populists, who 'Went to the People' in 1874?","Narodniks","Sputniks","Niknaks","Aftershoks","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][9]=new Array ("Two groups of populists were put on trial in 1874. How many were in each group?","193 & 50","245 & 6","139 & 28","40 & 45","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][10]=new Array ("Who did Vera Zasulich shoot in 1874?","Trepov","Milyutin","Alexander II","Loris","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][11]=new Array ("The Populist movement was replaced in 1874 by...?","Land and Liberty","Land and Equality","Liberty and Equality","Liberty and Vodka","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][12]=new Array ("Land and Liberty eventually split into two groups. What was the name of the group favouring peaceful methods?","Black Partition","People's Will","Narodniks","Marxists","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][13]=new Array ("Land and Liberty eventually split into two groups. What was the name of the group favouring violent methods?","People's Will","Black Partition","Narodniks","Marxists","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");game[2][14]=new Array ("The appointment of this minister gave fresh hope at the end of the reign that Alexander was ready for fresh reforms","Loris","Boris","Karloff","Thespider","R.J. Tarr - www.activehistory.co.uk");