Opposition to the Tsar
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- Created on: 16-04-14 15:42
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- Opposition to the Tsar
- Liberals (split in 1905)
- Octoberists
- Wanted slow, gradual reform from the Tsar and hoped to co-operate with the government in ruling the Empire
- Made up from mainly rich landowners and industrialists
- Feares the "dark masses"
- Kadets
- Wanted faster reform and a British style parliament that would bring Russia up to date
- Wanted the Tsar to be a Constitutional Monarch
- Support came from lawyers, doctors and professionals-very little from peasants
- Octoberists
- Social Revolutionaries
- Formed in 1901 by Chernov and were an alliance of populist groups
- They wanted to abolish landownership and return the land to those who worked on it
- SRs had big support from the peasants but not much from other social groups
- Most extreme SRs rejected the Duma and wanted revolution
- The SRs were too diverse and had too many ideas to have a widespread support base
- Social Democrats
- Formed in 1897 by Plekhanov and were greatly influenced by Marx
- Split in 1903 over the path they should follow
- Mensheviks
- Believed a bourgeoisie revolution was needed before a social revolution
- Believed they should co-operate with other parties
- Bolsheviks
- Led by Lenin
- Believed revolution should be led by one centralised party
- Felt the bourgeoisie were to weak to dstroy the old order
- Liberals (split in 1905)
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