key people 1
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- KEY PEOPLE
- ALEXANDER II
- Assassinated 1881
- Reign was characterized by reform
- Emancipated the serfs in 1861
- Had more liberal views
- ALEXANDER III
- 1881-1894
- fearful of revolution despite his strong physique
- Reversed many of his fathers reforms
- Conservative
- Gave control to the police and nobility
- Asserted centralized control
- MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
- Socialist intellectual thinker
- Believed that the state crushed individual freedom and should be removed
- Translated the Communist Manifesto 1869
- VIKTOR CHERNOV
- Involved with populism from teenage years
- Joined People's Will 1894
- Key in creation of Social Revolutionist Party 1901 and Duma in 1907
- FATHER GAPON
- Orthodox priest
- Believed he had a divine mission to help the workers
- Organised workers unions from 1903 but remained loyal to tsar
- Led the marches of Bloody Sunday
- Escaped with his life after BS 1905 but was found hanged after returning from exile
- IVAN GOREMYKIN
- Minister of Iinternal affairs 1895-1899
- Became PM 1906
- close ally of Rasputin
- Forced to resign as PM in july 1906 after disagreements with the first Duma
- Replaced by Stolypin
- Became PM again in 1914
- Assassinated in December 1917
- LEV KAMENEV
- Joined SD's 1901
- Deported into Siberia 1914 where he met Stalin
- Edited Pravda, opposing the April Thesis
- Voted against armed uprising with Zinoviev in October 1917
- Wanted a coalition with the socialists
- Made member of Politburo
- ALEXANDER KERENSKY
- Not interested in Marxism
- Elected to Duma 1912
- Joined SR'sin 1917
- Minister of War May 1917
- Became PM in July
- Took action against Kornilov's coup but fled to France
- LAVR KORNILOV
- Strong military discipline
- Appointed Commander in chief of the army July 1917
- Influential in punishing those involved with the July days
- Harsh towards the revolutionaries and those involved with strikes
- Kornilov affair was down to him
- ALEXANDER II
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