Opposition to Alexander II Flashcards
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Tsar’s ministers
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The Tsar’s ministers were divided into two camps: the reformers and those that believed that Russia needed to b restored to it’s imperial glories
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Intelligentsia (ex - Sergei Nechaev)
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Believed Tsar’s reforms were not radical enough
3
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Outsiders (eg - Merchants)
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Reforms not radical enough.
4
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Land and Liberty
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An anarchist organization that was strongly opposed to the tsar. Russia’s first revolutionary society.
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Nihilists
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Believed that nothing really mattered, and thus that power was unjustified and did not hold any value. Essentially, they were anarchists.
