Alexander II's opposition Tsarist Russia AQA A-
level Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
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Westerners opposition
Ans: * become more like the west
* individual rights and parliamentary democracy
* industrialise like the left or be left behind
e.g. loris-melikov
Intelligentsia opposition 2 groups
Ans: Westerners and Slavophiles
Slavophiles opposition
Ans: - had own distinct culture and traditions
- superior to the west
- believed in autocracy
- rejected democracy
- orthodox church
Intelligentsia: Chernyshevsky
Ans: - wrote 1860 journal The Contemporary
- What is to be Done (another novel)
- disappointed in Emancipation Edict
- caused him to promote force
Intelligentsia: Bakunin
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