Opposition: ideas & ideologies Flashcards
Who was Prince Lvov?
a wealthy landowner and liberal kadet leader
Who attempted to set up an ‘All-Zemstvo Organisation?’
Ivan Shipov
What happened to the attempted ‘All-Zemstvo Organisation?’
It was shut down immediately.
What year was the Beseda Symposium set up?
1899
What was the Beseda Symposium?
A group meeting up in secret to discuss matters of liberal interest.
What year did the government dismiss hundreds of liberals from the Zemstvas?
1900
Who founded the Union of Liberation?
Pyotr Struve
What year was the Union of Liberation founded?
1903
What did Pyotr Struve advocate?
a peaceful evolution
What did the Union of Liberation do?
It held a grand meeting in 1904, at which representatives of the Zemstva were invited.
When were the ideas of ‘agrarian socialism’ revived?
After the Great Famine 1891-92.
What does the term ‘agrarian socialism’ mean?
Taking estates from landowners and dividing the land between the peasants to be farmed communally.
What year was the Socialist Revolutionary Party founded?
1901.
Who was the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s most influential theorist?
Viktor Chernov
What ideas did the Socialist Revolutionary Party put forward?
That the wants and needs of the peasantry and the workers were identical and that they should work together.
How was the Socialist Revolutionary Party similar to the earlier Populist organisation?
They tried to stir up discontent in the countryside and carry out political assassinations.
How many political assassinations were carries out by the Socialist Revolutionary Party between 1901&1905?
2000
What was the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s most ‘spectacular’ achievement?
The assassination of Prime Minister Stolypin in 1911.
How many Socialist Revolutionaries were sentenced to death between 1905-9?
4579
Which organisation emerged in 1898 as an amalgam of various Marxist groups?
Social Democratic Worker’s Party.
What did the Social Democratic Worker’s Party believe about the future of Russia?
It would be the product of class struggles.
When did The First Congress of the Social democratic Worker’s Party take place?
1898
How many of the Social Democratic Worker’s party were arrested when the First Congress was broken up by Okhrana agents?
2
Which major figure played a part in the development of the Social Democratic Worker’s Party?
Lenin
What two groups did the Social Democratic Worker’s Party become divided into?
The Bolsheviks and The Mensheviks.
What year did the Social Democratic Worker’s Party divide?
1903
What year did Trotsky leave the Mensheviks to join the Bolsheviks?
1904
How many Trade Unions were closed down as a result of the 1905 Revolution?
497
When was the general strike in St. Petersburg?
July 1914
What weakened Tsarist Opposition between 1905&1914?
Exile of Leaders, Divisions between parties, Secret Police Network, Industrial Depression, Patriotism during WWI.
