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1
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What year was the Emancipation Edict?

A

1861

2
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How many years did ex-serfs have to pay back the state in redemption payments?

A

49 years - until 1910

3
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When were the zemstva created, and what were they?

A

1864, elected rural assemblies with disproportionate representation for upper class.

4
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When were Dumas created, and what were they?

A

1870, a municipal equivalent of the zemstva

5
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What did liberals hope the zemstva would be?

A

The first step towards a National Assembly.

6
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Why did Alexander II create the zemstva?

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A way to cut down state bureaucracy, a props to autocracy.

7
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What were the legal reforms passed by Alexander II and when?

A

Trial by jury. Justice of the peace.

8
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What were the educational reforms passed by Alexander II?

A

Liberalising

9
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How did Alexander II improve conditions in the army?

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Banned flogging.

10
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When was the Polish Revolt? And what was Alexander II’s response?

A
  1. Crushed it. Stationed 20,000? Troops in Poland.
11
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When and where was the first assassination attempt on Alexander II? What was the outcome?

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1866 at Kazan University. Ended Alexander II’s reform.

12
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Indication that Alexander II was returning to reform?

A

Loris-Melikov’s National Assembly Plan had just been approved.

13
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When was Alexander II assassinated, and who by?

A

March 1881 by the “People’s Will”

14
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When was the Vera Zasulich trial? What did it prove?

A
  1. the sympathetic jury found Zasulich not guilty. Zasulich’s lawyer turned the case on its head so that it “it was Colonel Trepov rather than his would-be assassin who was really being tried”. That Trepov and the government now appeared as the guilty party demonstrated the ineffectiveness of both the courts and the government.