THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION
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- THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION
- SOCIAL REVOLUTIONAIRES
- A combination of MARXIST and POPULIST ideas.
- Believed the peasants and industrial workers should work together to rid themselves of autocracy
- Saw the Peasantry as a revolutionary force and called for land re-distribution.
- METHODS: encouraged strikes in the towns and discontent in the countryside.
- Terrorism was also carried out: 2,000 political assassinations between 1901 -1905.
- SOCIAL DEMOCRATS "Marxists"
- Believed the working classes had to be exploited by their masters. The future of Russia would lie in a class struggle.
- From 1887, Lenin who joined as a student, came to play a prominent role in the party.
- Emphasised their debt to the People's Will (For Alexander II's assassination)
- IN 1903 SPLITS INTO:
- BOLSHEVIKS
- LENIN: were the majority of the social democrats.
- They wanted to work for Revolution. They favoured a disciplined party, to control the members and quality of its members.
- MENSHEVIKS
- A minority group under the leadership of Alexander Kerenskii.
- They believed in gradual change and establishment of a parliamentary form of government like that of France and Britain.
- They favoured a party which was open to all and to work within the system.
- BOLSHEVIKS
- The Liberals
- Wanted to see welfare, education, liberty and the rule of law - NOT REVOLUTION.
- Wanted a reform of autocracy not a revolution.
- TOLSTOY: argued for social and legal reform and an end to oppression whilst rejecting violence.
- BELIEVED IN PEACEFUL EVOLUTION NOR REVOLUTION.
- 1904 - declared their intentions to work for a constitutional government.
- Yet liberals had limited political influence by 1905. ONLY SURVIVED DUE TO POLICE DISTRACTED BY SR's AND SD's.
- SOCIAL REVOLUTIONAIRES
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