Chapter 5- Growth Of Opposition Flashcards
What two categories can moderate liberal groups be split into
Westernisers
Slavophiles
Why did western style socialism start to appear in the 1890’s
Industrialisation created poor working conditions
What does Orlando Figes identify as a key turning point in opposition to the tsarist regime
Great famine 1891-1892
Who were the group ‘young Russia’
Nihilistic group of students who wanted a ‘bloody and merciless’ revolution
What did ’young Russia’ do in 1862
Set a series of fires in St Petersburg which destroyed 2000 shops
What are examples of radical literature under Alexander II
Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s ‘what is to be done’
The Bell
When was the first copy of Das Kapital published in Russia
1872
What was the Tchaikovsky circle
Group founded in 1869 who studied Marxist literature and had the idea of going to the people
When did the populists send 2000 people to the countryside to try and spark revolution in the peasantry
1874
What did the populists ‘going to the peopled’ result in
1600 arrested
Peasants attacking them
What group carried on the work of the populists in 1877
Land and liberty
What two groups did land and liberty split into in 1879
Black repartition
The people’s will
How many people did the peoples will assassinate
2000
who was vera zasulich
member of people’s will who shot head of police in St Petersburg
acquitted by sympathetic jury in 1878
what happened at Bedzna
41 dead and 70 injured in riot over redemption payments in 1861
