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Print culture bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Robert Owen sought to build a cooperative community called New Harmony in:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1914 Russia and its empire were ruled by:Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of the Russian empire's people lived by agriculture around 1900?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1914, women made up what share of Russia's factory labour force?Read the answer and worked solution →The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party was founded in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Socialist Revolutionary Party, which demanded nobles' land for peasants, was formed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Lenin led which group, which wanted a disciplined party controlling its membership?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1905 procession to the Winter Palace, fired on in what became Bloody Sunday, was led by:Read the answer and worked solution →During the 1905 Revolution the Tsar allowed an elected consultative Parliament called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Because of anti-German feeling during the war, St Petersburg was renamed:Read the answer and worked solution →Which monk's influence over Tsarina Alexandra made the autocracy unpopular?Read the answer and worked solution →Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on:Read the answer and worked solution →Lenin's April Theses demanded an end to the war, land to the peasants and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Military Revolutionary Committee that organised the October seizure was headed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which ship shelled the Winter Palace on 24 October 1917?Read the answer and worked solution →In March 1918 the Bolsheviks made peace with Germany at:Read the answer and worked solution →The USSR was created from the Russian empire in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Bolshevik secret police was first called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Well-to-do peasants raided during the grain collections of 1928 were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1929 and 1931, peasants resisting collectivisation cut cattle numbers by:Read the answer and worked solution →The bad harvests of 1930-1933 caused a Soviet famine in which over how many died?Read the answer and worked solution →The first two Soviet Five Year Plans covered 1927-1932 and:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Russian namesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the socialist wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the revolution datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Russian wordsRead the answer and worked solution →February or OctoberRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the political ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →

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Print culture bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Carved block used for hand printing.
    Item
    Woodblock
  2. Clue
    Built the first-known press, 1430s.
    Item
    Gutenberg
  3. Clue
    Luther's 1517 challenge to the Church.
    Item
    95 Theses
  4. Clue
    Rome's list of banned books.
    Item
    Index 1558
  5. Clue
    Penny booklet sold by chapmen.
    Item
    Chapbook
  6. Clue
    Editor of the Bengal Gazette, 1780.
    Item
    Hickey
  7. Clue
    Calcutta area of cheap popular print.
    Item
    Battala
  8. Clue
    1878 law to censor Indian papers.
    Item
    Vernacular Act
  9. Clue
    Tilak's paper that got him jailed.
    Item
    Kesari
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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Robert Owen sought to build a cooperative community called New Harmony in:

  1. Indiana, USA
  2. Lancashire, UK
  3. Normandy, France
  4. Bavaria, Germany
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Correct answer: A. Indiana, USA

1. Owen was an English manufacturer. 2. New Harmony was in Indiana, USA. 3. Louis Blanc wanted the state to back cooperatives. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 2, Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution._

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In 1914 Russia and its empire were ruled by:

  1. Tsar Ivan the Terrible
  2. Tsar Nicholas II
  3. Tsar Alexander II
  4. Tsar Peter the Great
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Correct answer: B. Tsar Nicholas II

1. The empire stretched to the Pacific. 2. Nicholas II was Tsar in 1914. 3. He abdicated in March 1917. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 2, Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution._

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