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Alexander III
- Alexander II
- Emancipation
of serfs
- + Freedom, modern
- - Had to pay redemption
payments for 49 years
- - Loss of free living
- Zemstvas
- + Distribution of power
- Elected by wealthy
- Jury
- Fair trials
- Access to
primary/secondary
education for all
- + Education widespread
- - Radical thinking
- Relaxed censorship
- + More information
to people
- - Criticised authority
- Known as Tsar
liberator
- Assassinated by the
people's will on his way to
sign for a reform
- Showed unpopularity of
Tsarist system despite him
being a reformist
- Unprepared for Tsardom as
a child
- Pobedonostev taught him in 1865
after his brother died
- Blamed liberals for political
extremism and Alexander II death
- Hostile to other
nationalities in Empire
- Wanted to turn Russia
into a police state
- Influence on
Alexander III
- Reforms
- 1883 Improved working
conditions for women and
children
- 1881 Continued with
emancipation of serfs
- Peasant's land bank
- loans to peasants to
help them purchase land
- 1889 Finance Minister Vyshnegradsky
offered money to peasants to migrate to
Siberia
- Make use of land for crops
- Laws to reduce tax
burden on peasants
- Increased Tsar popularity
from peasants
- Reactions
- Russification
- All official documents
in Russian
- Other languages
forbidden in schools
- Angered minorities
- Unified Russia
- Censorship
increased
- University fees
increased
- Excluded everyone
but very wealthy
- Prevent radical
thinking
- 1884 Universities under
government control
- Chose who
governed Zemvsta
- Increased power
- 1890 Chose who could
be jury members
- Increased power
- Jews had no access to
education and peasants
had no access to
secondary schools
- Reduce radical
thinking and uprisings
- Primary schools
under Church control
- Voting rights
restricted
- Known as a reactionary
- Reaffirmed autocratic
power of the Tsar
- Repression is different to
other European countries
- Jews joined radical
organisations