OPPOSITION: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES Flashcards
what happened as education spread and a stronger middle class emerged?
the number of liberals pressing for more representation and the rule of law grew.
what did Nicholas reject in 1895?
a petition from the zemstvo calling for a national advisory body.
who met secretly to discuss reform in 1899 and was the lead for the liberal movement?
BESEDA SYMPOSIUM.
1900 - hundreds of liberals were dismissed from ….?
the elected boards of the zemstva.
what aim did the liberals achieve in 1905?
when the state duma was established (didn’t happen till 1907).
what did the great famine of 91-92 highlight?
the need to reform the rural economy.
what did students begin to campaign for?
a new form of populism.
what does populism involve?
violent protest.
what is populism?
real change in russia has to come from the peasants.
what was founded in 1899?
the social revolutionary party (SR’s).
what was the social revolutionary party?
a loose organisation compromising groups with a wide variety of views.
who was the SR’s most influential theorist and later became leader?
Chernov.
SR’s - who did they try and unite?
workers and peasants.
SR’s - why were they trying to unite workers and peasants?
to fight against autocracy and for land redistribution.
SR’s - attempted to stir up discontent in …?
the countryside and strikes in towns.
SR’s - ….. political assassinations between 1901 and 1905?
2000.
SR’s - who did they most famously assassinate and when?
Stolypin, prime minister at the time in 1911.
SR’s - 50% of its support came from …?
urban working class.
SR’s - what badly happened to them?
secret police infiltrated the movement and over 4000 were sentenced to execution.
what was created in 1898 out of various marxist groups?
social democratic workers party (SD’s).
who was founded first SR’s or SD’s?
SD’s.
SD’s - the w/c were being ……. by their masters?
exploited.
SD’s - the future of Russia would be the product of the …. …?
class struggle.
SD’s - impetus for change had to come from the ……?
working men themselves.
