Alexander II opposition

Question 1

what did the Polish resent ?

Answer 1

conscription + Russian influence

Question 2

when did uprising begin + how long

Answer 2

jan 1863 until 1865

Question 3

how was emancipation a cause of the polish revolt

Answer 3

renewed hope of freedom

Question 4

trigger for polish revolt

Answer 4

1862 summer forced conscription

Question 5

what was milyutins plan as war minister

Answer 5

purge Polish gentry to convert to national state

Question 6

what did Milyutin do

Answer 6

-russia official language - russification
-Catholic Church no communication w/ Vatican
-polish nobility exiled to siberia

Question 7

what was the Polish Revolt countered w/

Answer 7

repression - Karakazov (pole) student Uni Kazan assassination attempt

Question 8

who is Nikolai Chernyshevsky ?

Answer 8

editor journal + author ‘What is to be done’ 1863 ( influence bolshevik rev 1917) - peasants had to be revolutionary leaders

Question 9

who was Alexander Herzen

Answer 9

editor ‘The Bell’ - advocate new peasant based social structure on Mir - intelligentsia

Question 10

who was Mikhail Bukunin ?

Answer 10

anarchist + socialists - collectivisation of land
-1869 translate Karl Marx communist manifesto

Question 11

what did Karl Marx say?

Answer 11

-communism abolition of private property

Question 12

what does narodnik mean?

Answer 12

go to the ppl

Question 13

what did Peter Lavrov call for in 1874

Answer 13

encourage 2,000 students to ‘go to the ppl’ in the country dressed as peasants
–> failed as peasants loyal to Tsar

Question 14

consequence of 1874 narodnik

Answer 14

1,600 arrested

Question 15

main effect of narodnysm

Answer 15

-move radical meeting to countryside - more widespread

Question 16

when was a second failed narodnik attempt

Answer 16

1876

Question 17

what caused land and liberty to arise from narodniks (populists)

Answer 17

peasant indifference + subsequent gov persecution

Question 18

when was land + lib set up

Answer 18

1877

Question 19

what did land + lib do?

Answer 19

-use zemstva to place pressure on tsar for constitutional reform
-had public sympathy
-committed to carry out assassination

Question 20

evidence of assassination by land + lib

Answer 20

1878 gen Mezemstev - head of third section (secret police) + 7 attempts on Tsar

Question 21

when did land + lib split

Answer 21

1879 to black partition + ppl will

Question 22

who organised Black Partition

Answer 22

Plekhanov

Question 23

what did Black Partition do?

Answer 23

-partition black soil provinces under peasants - NOT SUCCESSFUL

Question 24

who led ppl’s will

Answer 24

Mikhailov

Question 25

evidence of Ppl’s will success

Answer 25

advocate assassination tsar - march 1881 success ( 7th attempt he survive but 8th attempt someone blows themselves up next to him which kills him)

Question 26

what group led polish revolt

Answer 26

intelligentsia

Question 27

how many men in polish revolt

Answer 27

10,000 men + 90,000 RUSSIAN soldier - 2yr guerrilla struggle