1. Political opposition

Question 1

The Liberals

Answer 1

Wanted Russia to be governed like Western countries
Wanted:
Greater freedoms
Greater land distribution
A representative Constituent Assembly
Improved conditions for industrial workers

Question 2

Kadets + Octobrists

Answer 2

Opposed first Duma
More intellectual arm of Liberal movement
More moderate
Supporters loyal to Tsar but wanted reforms to the government
Supported Oct Manifesto

Question 3

Populists

Answer 3

Revolutionaries
Believed agricultural communes and co-operative workshops provided a base development without need for capitalism
SRs emerged as a result

Question 4

SRs

Answer 4

Focused on standards of living
Radical left, moderate right
LW 200 political killings
RW worked with other parties
RW peasants
LW industrial workers

Question 5

SDs

Answer 5

Ideology off Karl Marx
Proletariat educated to overthrow autocracy
Improving pay + lowering working hours
Split in 1903

Question 6

Mensheviks

Answer 6

Martov + Plenkhanov
Membership open to all
Democratic
Votes made decisions
Alliances with other parties
Did not think proletariat could be educated - had to come to power by votes

Question 7

Bolsheviks

Answer 7

Lenin
Tight, exclusive professional revolutionaries
Authority to be exercised by Central Committee of party
No cooperation with other parties