13 - The Growth Of Liberal Opposition Flashcards

1
Q

What did industrial and educational expansion produce? What did they seek?

A
Middle class
Liberal change
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2
Q

Where did support for the middle class come from? Who were they joined by?

A

Professional groups

Liberal Nobility

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3
Q

What were 2 Liberal priorities?

A

Civil rights and a State Duma

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4
Q

Who was strongly represented in the Zemstva? What were they highly critical of?

A

Liberals/Professionals

Autocracy

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5
Q

What was introduced in 1889 that caused further opposition? How was it fuelled?

A

Land Captains

Overruling Zemstva decisions

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6
Q

What event exemplified Tsarist incompetence?

A

Great Famine

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7
Q

What was dismissed as a “senseless dream” in 1895? Whose idea was this?

A

National Duma

Zemstvo of Tver

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8
Q

What organisation was banned in 1896?

A

“All-Zemstva Organisation”

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9
Q

Who helped popularise political changes? Who is an example of this?

A

Liberal intellectuals

Tolstoy

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10
Q

What was legalised in 1900? Who was given permission to legalise this?

A

Trade unions

S.V. Zubatov - Head of Moscow Ohkrana

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11
Q

When was Zubatov’s permission revoked? Why?

A

1903

Trade unions attempted a general strike

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12
Q

When was the first liberal opposition group formed? What was it called?

A

1899

Beseda

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13
Q

What did Beseda merge with in 1903? Who led them?

A

Union of Liberation

Peter Struve

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14
Q

What was Struve formerly? What did he oppose?

A

Marxist

Violent revolution

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15
Q

What did Struve want Tsarism to become?

A

A constitutional monarchy

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16
Q

How many banquets were held over winter 1904? Why?

A

50

To spread the union’s message

17
Q

What did liberal opposition have before 1905? What 2 things were they won over by?

A

Limited political influence

October Manifesto and Duma

18
Q

Who was the liberal opposition largely represented by? What did they believe in?

A

Kadets

Constitutional Democracy

19
Q

Who did liberals try to co-operate with? What were they increasingly frustrated by?

A

Tsarist government

Intransigence of the Tsarist regime

20
Q

Who was arrested after the first Duma dissolved in 1906? What was reduced in size after the second Duma dissolved in 1907?

A

Kadet leaders

Electorate

21
Q

What did the Tsar increasingly ignore to pass laws? What was there little semblance to by 1914?

A

Dumas

Constitutional Monarchy