Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Period of reaction
- Reasons
- Russo-Turkish War
- 15,567 killed
- Victory took longer than expected
- Famine
- Over focus on industry and during war less were working --> POOR HARVEST
- Loss of support and rise of radicals who attacked the Tsar
- Polish Revolt 1863
- Policy of Russification
- Death of Alexander II's oldest son
- Assassination attempts
- By 'Pure Russians'
- Many attempts carried out by nobles
- Gave conservatives opportunity to attack the reformist polices
- Fear
- Mistress/new wide distanced him from his liberal relatives
- More aloof and less resistant to those opposed to reform
- Reactionary ministers
- Dimitri Tolstoy
- Piton Shuvalov
- Konstantin Pahlem
- Alexander Timashev
- Education
- Authority over primary schools returned to church
- Zemstva's control limited
- Critical education (history or literature) was banned
- Only students who went to a traditional school could go to uni
- Student clubs only allowed 7 members and permission/supervision
- International students forced to return
- However
- Many refused and no. radicals increased
- Female education decreased
- eradicate western ideas
- Increase in censorship
- Feared that an educated population would rebel
- Police/Judicial
- Work of Third Section increased
- Political crimes
- No longer public courts
- Military courts
- Secret sentences
- Increased censorship
- Executions and exiles
- Trial of 50 and Trial of 193
- 153 of the 193 were freed and remaining were given light sentences
- Attitude to ethnic minorities
- Poles lost liberties following 1863 revolt
- Russification
- Hostile attitude towards Poles, Finns, Jews and other minorities
- More radicals emerged
- Melikov's Commissions
- Release of political prisoners
- Relaxation of censorship
- removal of salt tax
- Restrictions on the Zemtva lifted
- Third Section abolished
- However, the Okhrana was created and was just as oppressive and feared
- Plans for a constitution
- BUT
- Alexander II was assassinated as he travelled back to the Winter Palace where he planned to sign the document