Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Identify the main political
opponents and key individuals to
autocracy
- Liberal intelligentsia
- Aims
- Westernisers
- Slavophiles
- Modernisation
- Supporters
- Turgenev-Westerniser
- Tolstoy Slavophile
- Methods
- Zemstvo
- Encourage members to think nationally
- 1891 Famine, so had to help poor
- Turgenev's plays/novels such as "A
Sportman's sketches" helped to oppose
serfdom
- Achievements by 1881
- Their beliefs very much akin to A2's
- Loris Melikov would have been accepted if alive
- Show they can help run country
- Populists-
Narodniks
- Aims
- Develop peasant commune, develop Russia
- Supporters
- Nobles/intelligentsia, peasants disliked it
- Methods
- "Going to the people" REVOLUTIONISE PEASANTRY
- Lavrov 1864, 1877 2000 people to travel into country to educate peasants
- Dress like peasants, integrate
- Exploit disgruntled peasants lack of land/redemption tax
- Mikhail Romas- sells fruit and veg for cheap
- Achievements by 1881
- 1600 arrested
- Peasants too conservative, too much rever for Tsar
- Radicals taken away from underground
meetings and out into countryside
- Giving gov awareness of depth of feeling of opponents
- Populists- Land and Liberty
- Achievements by 1881
- TPW: Assassinated General Mezemtsev head of 3rd section 1878
- Assassinate A2 1881
- Zemstvo and LaL org talks to pressure
autoc for constit reform
- Methods
- Black Rep- Peaceful
- Built relations with students/workers,
published radical material for social
change
- Lead by Georgi Plekhanov
- People's Will- Violent
- Planted spy in Third Section
- Assassinated gov officials
- 1879- Tsar had to go unless consitution
- Lead by Alexandr Mikhailov
- Supporters
- Professional/skilled classes
- Aims
- People's Will- remove Tsar
- Pressure autocracy into
consitutional reform
- Develop peasants develop Russia
- Black Repartition
- Share/partition black soil
provinces among peasantry
- QUOTE
- "A clique of dedicated professionals" is needed for revolution according to Sixmith