POLITICAL AUTHRORITY DEVELOPMENT 1894-1917

Question 1

n.2 response to pressure made things worse

Answer 1

used repressions(okhrana) instead of reform concessions = caused further resentment (1905 russian rev)

Question 2

great famine 1891-2

Answer 2

starvation,400k died, gov didn’t help(relied on zemstvas) gov look incompetient= relief effort blankebrug (American)75mil’russian famine relief’
inc peasant disfaftions= rebirth populist/liberal opposition

Question 3

liberals demand for greater democracy/stronger

Answer 3

limits on tsar power
more democracy at national level
give more power elected individuals(l.c+governers)
more liberals actively involved in zemstavs institutions (thirdel)

Question 4

moderate liberals

Answer 4

demanded ‘consultitive assembly’

Question 5

radicle liberals

Answer 5

wanted national parliemtn - anger by restrictions placed on zemstavs

Question 6

number of liberals with liberal attitudes grown 1860

Answer 6

-inc ed, creation of loc gov, development industry > larger bourgeois, dev professions mc

Question 7

liberals wanted wider participation in political system

Answer 7

demanded more democracy

Question 8

liberals demand for democracy (dismissed by n.2)
1895- THETVER ZEMSTVAS

Answer 8

petitions n.2 to set up advisory body

Question 9

liberals demand for democracy (dismissed by n.2)
1895- PRINCE IVOV

Answer 9

demanded all class zensvo at district land+creation of national assembly
(everyone)

Question 10

liberals demand for democracy (dismissed by n.2)
1896 - DIMITRY

Answer 10

tried to set up national all, zemstvo organisation

Question 11

n2 quotes on liberals

Answer 11

‘sensless dreams’ ‘uphold autocracy as firmly as father’

Question 12

1903 liberals established ‘union of liberation’

Answer 12

push for democratic reform/replace tsar with constitutional monarch under influence of marxist

Question 13

‘union of liberation’
AIM

Answer 13

founded by Pyotr-germany
ecourgae zemstvo to pressure throne for new constitoution, establish ‘banqueting campaing’- allowing liberals to meet to discuss democratic reforms, encouraging formation of unions

Question 14

played influential role 1905 rev
zemstvo liberals

Answer 14

-coop with rev groups(didn’t agree violence)
-organised strikes during rev/coordinated wc
-forces tsar issue October manifesto-promised national assembly.

Question 15

main political party came out liberal movements

Answer 15

kadets/octoberists

Question 16

peasant dissasfaction
long terms causes

Answer 16

resentment from land hunger/emanctipation
remained poor(worst land/methods/tools)
rural over pop-land hunger
still exploded by nobles land owners

Question 17

peasnts becoming inc rebellious

Answer 17

inspired by populist prop
wide spread peasant country disturbances
arson/land seizures
‘1903-4’years of red cockrel’ =ecomonic discontent

Question 18

repression was used to crush peasnts

Answer 18

stolypin(interior miniters>pm)
introduces harsh measures 1906 onwards (beatings executions

Question 19

student radicalising
inc active

Answer 19

carried out demonstartions
inspired liberal/populist/marxist (more literature)
strike in 1899 protest against treatment

Question 20

start a.2/n.2 uni students

Answer 20

3000>1897=30k

Question 21

student repressed

Answer 21

gov introduced ‘temporary rules 1899’
Cossacks,1901 charge a crowd of students, kill 13, 1500 students impriosned