Reforms Flashcards
What did liberal reformers and conservatives agree lay at the heart of the system’s backwardness?
Institution of serfdom
What could not take place unless serfdom was abolished?
Other reforms, especially military reform
What would emancipating the serfs make major changes to?
The way rural Russia was organised and administered
The legal and institutional structure which had existed since the 17th century
Who was the tsar likely to offend?
The nobility on whom his regime depended
Westernisers
Believed Russia should adopt certain values and political and economic institutions from the West
What political institutions did Westernisers believe Russia should adopt from the West?
Individual rights and parliamentary democracy
What did Westernisers think Russia needed to do like the West in order to not be left behind?
Industrialise and urbanise
Slavophiles
Believed Russia had its own distinctive culture and traditions that were special and superior to those of the West
The Slavophile culture was transmitted by which institutions?
Orthodox Church
Village commune
What did Slavophiles reject from the West?
Parliamentarianism, individualism, rationalism and atheism
What did Slavophiles believe conveyed Russian order and stability that was lacking in western countries?
Autocracy
Why was it necessary to bring in new reforms?
To do the jobs the nobility used to do and build a more modern state closer to its Western European counterparts
Where were new reforms brought into?
Local government, justice system, military, education, censorship
