Opposition between 1855-1894 Flashcards
Who were the populists made up from
ranks of the nobility and intelligentsia
what did the populists do
they wanted to go to the people
they aimed to stir up and bring light to concerns on the basis of land and high taxation to the peasants in attempts to create a more fairer society however this failed many were handed over to the tsarist regime
were blinded and bound to the regime based on their loyalty
who were the intelligentsia made up from
Small class that made up Russian society that were educated
with travel being allowed and censorship being reformed allowed an infiltration of certain ideologies eg. Marxism
Questioned Tsarist regime and wanted to create a fair and equal society focusing primarily on the peasantry in attempts to create a more westernised society
who were the land of liberty and what were their aims
Created from the left overs of the Narodniks. They achieved the assassination of General Mezemstev (head of the Third Section, 1878) and made several attempts on the Tsars life. However, in 1879, they split into two.
what did the land of liberty split up into
People’s will and Black Partition
who was the peoples’ will and what did they do
Advocated violent methods and assassination of the Tsar which they successfully did in March 1881 with a bomb thrown at the Tsars coach travelling in St Petersburg
who were the black partition
Aimed to “partition the black (fertile) soil’ provinces among peasants but also, worked peacefully among peasants. They spread radical materials to students and workers. However, arrests during 1880-1881 made them weak and eventually ted to the split of the group. Agrarian socialism
what did the opposition show about government failures
Government failures i.e show trials and assassinations helped suggest the Tsarist regime lacked authority.
What did the opposition show to the conservative bureaucracy
The conservative bureaucracy, nobles and landowners who had opposed Alexander’s reform forced him to adopt a more reactionary stance by linking reform to opposition.
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Editor of radical journal “The Contemporary” and author of a book “What is to be done?” in 1863. These helped the wide spread view that, the peasants had to be made leaders of revolutionaries.
