Russia in Revolution
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- Created on: 04-01-13 17:36
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- Challenges to Tsarist Russia
- Alexander II assassinated in 1881 by people's will on the way to sign legislation that meant people couldn't be tried without jury.
- Repression Policies
- Okhrana was used to bring fear
- reforming ministers forced to resign
- Uni fees increased so that only wealthy could attend
- Statue of State security laws meant people could be tried without jury
- Press censorship, in 7 years, 14 major newspapers were banned
- Russification. All official docs were to be written in Russian. All Russian people had to speak Russian and Russian was the only language spoken and taught at school
- Alexander III linked his fathers reforms directly to his death saying that they threatened Tsarist ways
- Gov made it virtually impossible for peasants to get education past primary school
- Alexander III was influenced by Pobedonestsev who believed 'Autocracy, Nationality, Orthodoxy'
- Land captins were appointed by directly by government. They later became part of the the Zemstva were only landed classes could vote
- Economic changes
- Vyshnegradsky 1887 encouraged foreign investments and incentives to move to Siberia
- Bunge - Reduced peasant tax and started Peasant Land Bank
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