Alexander II Flashcards
1856
Crimean war ends
1860
State bank established
1861
Emancipation of serfs
1863
Polish revolt
1864
zemstva
1866
Attempted assassination
1874
Go to the people movement
1879
People’s will established
1881
Assassination
serfdom
peasants owned by landowners
emancipation
freed from bondage
Judiciary
Part of the government- responsible for the legal system
Bureaucracy
System where most decisions taken by state officials and not elected representatives
Populist
thinks propaganda can cause a peasant revolution
revolutionary
forward thinking views
liberal
promotes individual rights and freedoms
land and liberty
socialist movement that wanted constitutional reform
people’s will
socialist revolutionary group who think terrorism is the best way of forcing political reform
autocracy
system of government where one person has absolute power
Intelligentsia
educated liberal leaning russian people