ORGANISED OPPOSITION TO TSARDOM BEFORE 1905

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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
    • 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
    • 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
      • 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)

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