pressures in the late 1870s

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  • pressures in the late 1870s
    • Russo-Turkish war (1877-1878)
    • famine (1879-1880)
    • industrial recession
    • pressure from reactionary conservatives
    • attempted assassinations (1879-1880)
    • Alex II tried to reduce unrest by widening democratic consultation
    • Count Loris-Melikov appointed Minister for Internal Affairs
      • relaxed many restrictions
      • abolished Third Section
        • powers transferred to Okhrana (became just as oppressive)
      • produced Loris-Melikov Constitution in 1880
        • recommended including elected representatives in debating some state decrees
        • Alex II accepted report on 13th March 1881 then got killed by a bomb later that day

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