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Alexander 3's reforms
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Alexander III's education, censorship, judicial, peasant, local government and policing reforms
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russian history
alexander iii
history
r: 1.1- trying to preserve autocracy
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Alexander 3's reforms
Local Government
Land Captain July 1889
Power to override, and ignore Zemstvo decisions/ elections, village assemblies
Controlled law enforcement
Power of death penalty
Changed election arrangements 1890
Peasant vote reduced
Lost the little power/ability to discuss
Zemstvo placed under central gov control
Property owners of certain value ONLY on electorate JUNE 1892
Ensures conservative, aristocratic electorate
ALL CHANGES MADE TAX COLLECTION MORE EFFICIENT, RE-ESTABLISHED CLASS PRINCIPLE IN COUNTRY, LOCAL NOBILITY POWER REASSERTED
Policing
Statute on Police Surveillance 1882
Area deemed one of "subversion"
Search and arrest those they expected had done a crime
Those arrested had no legal right to representation
Vyacheslav von Plehve heads Dept of Police 1881-1884
Pyotr Durnovo 1884+
More police, branches, spies, counter spies, agent provacteurs
Okhrana put Royal family under surveillance
Judicial
Minister Justice greater control decree of 1885
Dismiss judges- only favourable to autocracy in control
1887 closed court sessions
At mercy of judge/no fair trial
1889- Appoint own town court judges
1887 property education quals needed for jurors RAISED
1889- Volosts under direct jurisdiction of Land Captain in country, judges in towns
Education
Delyanov
University Charter 1884
Appointments of chancellor, dean, professor subject based on 'religious, moral and patriotic orientation'
Uni closed to women
Separate uni courts abolished
Students gather no more than 5
Lower classes restricted to primary education by Orthodox Church
Prevent growth of radical/independent thinkers
21% pop literate by 1897
Censorship
Tolstoy head of
1882 Temporary Regulations
Newspapers closed
Lifetime bans could issued on editors/publishers
More active censors
Extended to theatre, art and culture
Peasant reform
Land Bank 1883
May 1881- Redemptions fees reduced
Arrears cancelled
May 1885 poll tax abolished, replaced with inheritance tax
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