Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Opposition
Groups-Political
- Populists
- not happy with Tsarist rule
- didn't like Alex IIs reforms
- objective to assassinate him
- used violence as a means to spark revolution
- land and liberty movement
- pressure group of intellectuals
- believed important to live among peasants
- help their plight
- terrorist group- people's will
- populist opp. successful
- assassination of Alexander II
- however did not
completely over throw
tsarism
- Socialist revolutionaries
- focussed on improving living standards for poor
- needs of proletariat
- used violence
- 2000 political killings
- the party with most support
- biggest threat to Tsarist rule until 1917 rev.
- more effective op. than populists
- received most votes
in constituent
assembly election
- 370 seats
- Social Democrats
- educate workers
- implement marxism
- split to Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
- Lenin
- bolsheviks seized power 1917
- had to use force to gain
power as did not gain
most votes at
constituent assembly
election
- bolshevik leaders returned from exile
- as prov gov allowed expansion of political groups
- kerensky stremgthened bolshevik power
- by involving them in kornilov affair
- Liberals
- emerged with development of zemstva
- want russia to be
more westernised
in way governed
- fair land distribution
- constituent assembly
- improved workers conditions
- had little effect on
Nich. II advisors
- Kadets/Octobrists
- moderate liberals
- opposed first Duma
- leaders became key members of prov gov
- Milyukov
- Guchkov
- supported Oct Manifesto
- wanted change in Tsarist system
- fundamental laws reduced their power!!!
- Inside opposition- Lenin
- call for coalition after Bolsheviks seized power
- Kamenev
- signing of treaty of brest-litovsk
- opposed by trotsky
- Triumvirate
- clique
- take over politburo
- members
- Kamenev
- Zinoviev
- Stalin
- everything crushed by Lenin
- changed policy of war
communism as some party
members disagreed with it
- divided party even more
- left saw it as a betrayal
- right favoured capitalist concession
- stalin criticised for running of
rabkrin and role in georgian affair
1921
- United Opposition group
- Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev
- response to
Stalin's
growing
power in
Bolshevik
party
- opp. to NEP
- demands more free speech
- were excluded from the Politburo
- 1927 Trotsky expelled from party
- Trotsky exiled to Kazakhstan 1929 and expelled from USSR
- Opp. towards Stalin
- RW bolsheviks
- opposed collectivisation
- too alike war communism
- Bukharin - vocal
- ousted as president of
comintern and politburo
- some members taken a
dilatory approach to
implementing
collectivisation
- party membership reduced to a 10th
- many politburo members exiled or killed for being oppositionists