Alexander III Flashcards
Alex III’s nickname?
Tsar Repressor
What were land captains?
Members of the gentry chosen to control the peasants - their power superseded the Mir
What did Alex III do to universities?
Centralised them and brought strict controls on them, reducing student freedom
What did Alex III do to uni fees?
x4
Decree restricting access to education under Alex III?
1887 decree to prevent children from humble backgrounds being ‘encouraged to abandon the social environment to which they belong’
How many students at the end of Alex IIIs rule?
16,500
What % of the population could vote under Alex III?
0.7% of the population in Moscow and st Petersburg
Manifesto on unshakeable autocracy?
1881
When was the Zemstva act under Alexander III?
1890
What did the Zemstva act do?
Reduced Zemstvas powers and independence, centralising gov control
How many executions under Alex III?
44
What was the Okhrana?
Secret police from 1881
When was lenins brother hung?
1887
Growth of Russia’s economy pa in the 1890s?
8% pa
When was witte appointed finance minister?
1892
Who did witte convince to invest in Russian industry?
Foreign investors eg France and Belgium
When were the trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern railways built?
1892-1904
Railways built between 1892 and 1904?
Trans-Siberian and Chinese-Eastern
Factory legislations under Alex III?
Restricted hours of work and prevented women and children from working
Famine under Alex III?
1891
% of national minorities in population under Alex III?
55
Interior minister responsible for Russification?
Plehve
Series of pogroms broke out in…
1881
How many decrees against Jews in 1881?
600
