Zusammenfassung der Ressource
"Why did Alexander II
face opposition to his
rule in the 1870's?"
- Popular reforms
- Emancipation of
the serfs (1861)
- Serfs still had to buy their own land.
Few could afford to so most remained
tied to land owned by the nobility
- Abolition of capital
punishment
- Introduction
of Zemstvas
- Judicial reform
- Background knowledge
- Russo Turkish war
- Several assassination
attempts made
- Assassinated in
March 1881