Industrialisation And Social Change 1881-1904 Oppositon Evidence

Question 1

Marxists/Social Democrats

Answer 1

1880s- books published
1898- First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Worker’s Party of the Soviet Union held
1903- meetings in Brussels and London, split occurred

Question 2

Populists

Answer 2

Famine of 1891-2 caused question of tsar
1886- People’s Will reformed among students in St Petersburg
1901- created Socialist Revolutionary Party
50% members were urban working class
2000 political assassinations between 1901 and 1905

Question 3

Intelligentsia

Answer 3

Famine of 1891-2 politicised the middle class 
1903- Union of Liberation founded by Pyotr Struve and journal 'Liberation' was published