Reform And Reaction 1855-81: Oppostion Evidence

Question 1

Intelligentsia

Answer 1

‘Young Russia’- 2000 shops set on fire in 1862
1863- ‘The Organisation’ was established
1864- Zemstva created and more calls for reform

Question 2

Marxists/Social Democrats

Answer 2

Copies of communist manifesto translated and published in the early 1870s

Question 3

Populists

Answer 3

1877- Land and Liberty
1879- split into two groups, Black Partition and People’s Will
Black Partition weakened by arrests in 1880-81
People’s Will- killed tsar on 13th March 1881