Opposition 1894 - 1914

Question 1

Name some isolated leaders in 1894

Answer 1

Lenin - arrested for propaganda in a strike movement in 1895 - exiled to Siberia
Only after Nicholas’ accession he publishes what is to be done and put forward ideas in the SD party.

Trotsky exiled to Siberia in 1900

Question 2

Name a less extreme revolutionary group in 1894

Answer 2

Plekanov founded emancipation of labour in 1883. He was isolated in switzerland and it had less revolutionary policies

Question 3

Why did the SDs have more revolutionary policies

Answer 3

Committed to Marxism
Asserted revolution had to come from the workers

Question 4

Underground groups in 1984

Answer 4

Tchaikovsky circle - printed marxist texts, only 100 of them

self education circles such as the Muscovite society of translators

40 percent of the country is illiterate

Question 5

When was the SRs founded and what did the want

Answer 5

Formed 1901

Victor Chernov was an influential theorist, editor of the party journal revolutionary russia

Promoted the view that the interests of the workers and labouring poor were identical and they should work together to destroy autocracy and redistribute land.

Question 6

Growth of liberal opposition to 1905

Answer 6

reputation enhanced by great famine
resentment galvanised by reduction of zemstva powers
1895 petitioned for an advisory body. dismissed as a senseless dream
Libral nobles like prince lavrov continued to fight for a all-class zemtvo at district level
Beseda symposium met up in secret to discuss liberal ideas
main aim achieved when got a state duma