ORGANISED OPPOSITION TO TSARDOM BEFORE 1905
- Created by: beckylackner
- Created on: 22-06-17 11:09
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- Organised opposition before 1905
- PEASANTS
- Outbreaks frequent -NOT localised, not explicitly anti-govt
- Redemption payments caused hostility - worsened countryside conditions
- Poverty & desparation
- Northern districts - soil poor and growing season short 'Black Earth'
- Methods of production
- 'Ship farming' in north - land available divided into 3 large open fields, each household allocated a number of ships in each field by village mir
- Periodically - (10-15 yrs), ships reallocated to ensure fairness
- INEFFICIENT - time wasted moving ship to ship, some land wasted (uncultivated), no strong incentive and crop rotation = 1/3 of fields left fallow p/a
- Periodically - (10-15 yrs), ships reallocated to ensure fairness
- 'Ship farming' in north - land available divided into 3 large open fields, each household allocated a number of ships in each field by village mir
- WORKERS
- Strikes - often brutal
- Army called out to deal with strikes c300 times in 1901
- Grim working and living conditions
- Low pay; long hours (c60 a week!), factory discipline harsh & injuries frequent
- Overcrowded - breeding ground for typhus and cholera
- Strikes - often brutal
- MIDDLE CLASS & LEAGUE OF LIBERATION
- Middle class broadly hostile to Tsarism
- Attachment to liberalism - intelligentsia strongly liberal
- Economic system based on private enterprise rather than public ownership
- Attachment to liberalism - intelligentsia strongly liberal
- 2ND STRONGHOLD: Zemstva
- 1900s: left-wing elements among Zemstvo liberals joined forces with radicalised students - Liberation Movement
- Newspaper: 'Liberation' founded 1902
- 1904: Secret meeting in St. P - formed League of Liberation (MILYUKOV leading figure)
- Middle class broadly hostile to Tsarism
- PEASANTS
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