Opposition Groups In Russia

Question 1

Populists

Answer 1

Wanted to reduce the people in power and create a more equal society they use terrorism and assassination they had radical intellectuals who planted bombs in the Winter Palace in 1880

Question 2

Socialist revolutionaries

Answer 2

They wanted less people in power and raise the political understanding of the masses they have their own combat group which lead to blowing up the minister of the interior they use terrorist activities and propaganda campaigns they have a headquarters in Switzerland and used young volunteers to shoot the tsars a closest advisors

Question 3

Bolsheviks

Answer 3

Lenin wanted to seize powder
Martov spread propaganda and raise the level of consciousness of the proletariat
They use party program membership propaganda however Lenin wanted to gain control powerfully
They held their first Congress in Brussels then moved to London due to the Belgian police

Question 4

Mensheviks

Answer 4

Led by Martov from the group from the minority of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks)
He wanted membership to be open to anyone who accepted party program and delay the Marxist revolution he spread propaganda to raise the level of consciousness of the proletariat free votes and open debates

Question 5

Union of liberation

Answer 5

Set up in 1883 for the emancipation of the working-class they opposed terrorist tactics
 17 intellectuals wrote pamphlets to help organise a strike

Question 6

Popular violence

Answer 6

Serious student disorders in 1899 and run by peasants they wanted a fair wage living conditions and education rights
There were strikes in St Petersburg assassinations of the minister of education and presidents protest in 1902 after poor harvest