Response to reform

Question 1

Greater Political Opposition

Answer 1

Alexander upset both conservatives who resented loss of influence and liberals who wanted the reform to go further

Question 2

Crisis of rising expectations

Answer 2

Raised hopes he could not fulfil w/out undermining autocracy

Question 3

What did the crisis of rising expectations call for

Answer 3

A national assembly assembly (parliament) and written constitution defining and limiting tsar’s powers

Question 4

Political Atmosphere

Answer 4

Freer and more open political atmosphere of the reforms led to a growth in radical opposition who demanded fundamental to Russian autocracy and society

Question 5

Assassination

Answer 5

Growth of dissatisfaction and opposition for Alexander led to his assassination by terrorists in 1881

Question 6

Reforms in 1860

Answer 6

• Stood at crossroad between autocracy and liberal
• Committed to autocracy
• Enacted a series conservative measures that some historians called reactionary

Question 7

1866-81 Reactionary reforms

Answer 7

• Liberal (reforming) ministers in his government replaced w/ conservative ministers who opposed further reform

Question 8

Third selection ( secret police )

Answer 8

• Less freedom of press and censorship
• After Alexander’s first assassination attempt SC were given greater power to arrest and clamp down on radicals

Question 9

1870’s prisons

Answer 9

All were full and 150,000 opponents were exiled to siberia

Question 10

Historian suggestion

Answer 10

” Isolated from the Russian people, unpopular with the educated public, and cut off from the bulk of society and the court. His fate had become a matter of indifference to the majority of subjects”