tsarist reaction and the radical opposition after 1881
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- tsarist reaction and radical opposition after 1881
- security and repression increased
- Populist movement effectively ceased to exist
- some supporters managed to meet in secret and commit terrorist attacks
- underground societies continued to translate and reproduce foreign socialist writings
- contact with exiled radicals and in west maintained
- Georgi Plekhanov established Emancipation of Labour group in 1883
- translated and arranged for Marxist tracts to be smuggled into Russia
- suggested revolutionaries should concentrate activities among city workers
- was proletariat that would drive a revolution
- believed the proletariat would first need to cooperate with bourgeoisie to destroy autocracy
- St Petersburg students tried to reform People's Will in 1886
- group making bombs to assassinate Alex III arrested in March 1887
- five members hanged (including Lenin's older brother)
- industrialisation growth led to development by 1890s
- workers' organisations
- spread radical Marxist ideas more widely
- illegal trade unions
- spread radical Marxist ideas more widely
- Marxist discussion circles
- workers' organisations
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