Limitations of personal, political and religious freedom
Alexander II depth study
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- Created on: 19-01-18 09:17
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- Limitations on personal, political and religious freedom
- Peasantry
- Disgruntled acceptance rather opposition outbreak, Tsar natural supporters
- Local Govt. offered limited avenues for reform but didn't affect many day to day
- Mainly untouched by legal reform: volost/peasants courts
- Habit of showing defence to authority
- Harsh punishments for uprising - Kazen revolt of 200 were punished
- Arbritary force made 1870's peasants reluctant to join intelligentsia which encouraged rebellion
- Nobility
- Emancipation serfs forced them to give up labour/land to ex-serfs
- Wanted to be dominant still. Provincial Governors and high powers with Zemstva, military and judiciary
- Assassination attempt of 1866 made cons believe that state needed to be purged of foreign influences
- Pahlen = ministry of justice, liberal Golerin to Tolstoy. Shuvalov became head of secret police. Timashev to replace Valuev as minister of internal affairs
- Cons felt educated population would be rebellious
- felt reforms undermined their authority, should be purged of Western ideas
- Peasantry
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