Alexander II's reforms Flashcards
what ideology did the Tsars believe in?
Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality
which war prompted Alexander II to free the serfs?
Crimean
What was the date of the emancipation act?
3rd march 1861
how long did the serfs have to pay redemption payments for
49 years
what was the name of the village commune that took over some control from the landowners after the emancipation act?
the mir
name Alexander II’s legal reforms
- Equality before the law
- public hearings
- trial by jury
- emancipation of the serfs
which case in 1878 led alexander II to stop open courts?
Vera Zasulich
what kind of courts were the peasant courts and what could they do?
Volost Courts: which could handle smaller civil and criminal cases. It could sentence people to corporal punishment, fine, or short-term incarceration.
to the nearest thousand, how many miles of railway did Russia have by 1881?
14,000
How much was conscription time (years) in the army reduced?
from 25 to 6 years
what year was a state bank set up?
1860
what year was the municipal bank set up?
1862
how far did the number of schools increase?
25,000
when were zemstva introduced?
1864
when were the Dumas introduced?
1870
