Opposition Groups

Question 1

The Duma

Answer 1

• viewer tsar as inept political and military leader
• Suspended during war
• begged to be recalled due to stage of the war - N bowed to pressure (July 1915)

Question 2

The liberals…

Answer 2

• favoured moderate reform and constitutional monarchy
Included Kadets, Octobrists and Progressives

Question 3

The Social Revolutionaries…

Answer 3

• Formed in 1901
• Groups that’s tried to organise and improve peasantry from the 1860’s
• Tried to attract workers but suffered from internal divisions
• some terrorist elements - believed in political assassination
• gained more support from trade unions
• lack of discipline and coordination

Question 4

The Social Democrats…

Answer 4

• All russian labour founded in 1898
• based on the theories of Karl Marx
• led by educated intellectuals
• support rapidly expanded industrial working class (proletariat)
• Split in 1903 - Lenin voted for the revolutionaries against Martov
• Martov wanted party with working class members and work through trade unions (destroy tsarist regime)