pressures in the late 1870s
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- Created on: 02-06-21 21:13
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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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