Contents

• Section 1: Was Nicholas II Suited to Being an Autocratic Leader?
• Section 2: The Peasantry
• Section 3: Opposition 1 - The Intelligentsia
• Section 4: Opposition 2 - Other Political Parties and the Army
• Activity 1: Which were the revolutionary and which were the reformist influences in Russia before the war?
• Section 5: An Introduction to Marxism
• Activity 2: Test your understanding of Marxism
• Section 6: Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Did Lenin always want to be a Dictator?
• Activity 3: Quick quiz! Test your knowledge of Lenin
• Section 7: The Four Dumas 1906-1914
• Section 8: Social and Economic Conditions in Russia, 1894 - 1914
• Section 9: Activity 4: Was Russia ungovernable between 1894 and 1914?
• Section 10: Activity 5: Was Tsarism doomed to collapse soon after 1914?

• Internet links
• Further reading

The autocratic hierarchy. Artist's impression of cartoon from the period.