attitudes of tsars, provisional govt + communists to political change

Question 1

what were the attitudes of tsars to political change-

what did they want to maintain?

what democratic elements were brought in under whose rule?

what did Zemstva prove to be?

what did fundamental laws limit?

Answer 1

-all showed desire to maintain autocracy

a2= Zemstva 
n2= national duma

unrepresentitive of whole population

dumas powers limited

Question 2

what were attitudes of prov gov-

how did they feel about political change?

what were their aims?/what did they do?

Answer 2

-positive- more liberal nature

• set up constituent assembly
• freed political prisoners
• formed alliance with Petrograd soviet

Question 3

attitudes of communists to political change-

what did bolsheviks want

what were the bolsheviks interested in doing after oct revolution?

what did Stalin want?

what was Stalin enforcing?

what did khrushchev show?

Answer 3

wanted revolutionary political change- forced tsar to abdicate, disbanded PG ect

interested in consolidating power

to centralise power rather than groups in Soviet Union

totalitarianism- used repression

willing to embrace change by desalinisation and shifting authority to party