Opposition Flashcards
Alexander III
Was the cause of a lot of opposition, as he started the Russo Japanese war in 1904-1905.
After a II death, 150 members of the people’s will were arrested and the secret police had repeated successes in penetrating the organisation. There were few successful terrorist attacks. The secret police captured khalturin and his associate who planted a bomb in the winter palace in 1880 and hanged. They were too effective and the waste of life was too high. Little support for the attacks amongst the public.
Conditions in prisons made severe
Nicholas II
Started Russo Japanese war and was defeated which caused revolts.
October manifesto have civil rights to everyone, participation of the Duma to those who were deprived of voting powers. It marked the end to the most serious problems, it divided the opposition forces, the St Petersburg soviet of workers called another general strike in November. The Bolsheviks called on workers to strike and when police tried to prevent it the workers threw up barricades and the strike turned into a revolution.
General strike came to an end. No longer had confidence in the regime.
ROMANOV DYNASTY ENDED
Stolypins wager of the strong was favourable amongst peasants
Lenin
Banned all other political parties from the government
Cheka successfully suppressed radicalism
Opposition groups were either disbanded by force or went underground.
Peasants opposed war communism and collectivisation but peasant revolts were out down.
Lenin encouraged class warfare as means of intimidating the middle classes and terrorising them into submission.
NEP women
Alexander II
Assassinated.
Censorship was reduced which led to some seditious books being published and the tsar which encouraged them to revolt.
The state police would arrest or execute people suspected of radicalism which scared many people.
Wasn’t able to fully suppress uprisings and prisoners often discussed revolutionary theories and strategies.
