a. socialists
create a classless society to stop the suffering of the workers and peasants. To take the "means of production" from the owners and make them state-run.
b. liberal reformers
believed that they could take the western constitutional practices and the "rule of law" to solve Russia's problems.
2. List three characteristics of serfs' lives.
a. they live in small villages
b. in poverty
c. Farmer's
3. List four reforms of Tsar Alexander II.
1. millions of serf's were liberated
2.the land that belonged to the ex-serf-holder's was allotted to peasant communities
3.the serf's were granted personal freedom
4. a new system of land transference was established
4. Why did the populists go "to the people" in 1873-1874?
To convince them to start a revolution telling them that it for for their down trotted family
5. List two consequences of the famine of 1891.
it effected 36 million peasants.
the Russian economy was dependent on foreign currency
6. Why was Karl Marx important to Russian intellectuals?
they were attracted by it's "sociological and economical optimism".
7. What were the Goals and Methods of the following political groups in early twentieth century Russia? (see page 8 of the reading)
a. Liberal Democrats
Valued individual liberty
They used support of workers and peasants to start a revolution.
b. Socialist Revolutionaries
slogan was "land and liberty"
socialized all land and transferred it into communes
c. Social Democrats
wanted to form a radical party to start a revolution
8. How did Bloody Sunday change people's attitudes toward the Tsar?
he was no longer considered a "benevolent protector"
9. List four reforms in Tsar Nicholas's October Manifesto.
An expansion of civil liberties
A limited monarchy
A legislature elected by universal suffrage
and legalization or trade unions and political parties.
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