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Mind Map by lucymartin017, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lucymartin017
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Alexander
III’s
Policies:
- Alexander III reversed mostly everything his
father had started after his assassination
- Emancipation Decree (1861)
offered peasants chance to
buy land, but this was too
costly Strip System of
Farming
- Issued Manifesto declaring
power resided in Tsar - THE
UNSHAKEABLE
AUTOCRACY
- Press freedom restricted 14
major newspapers banned
between 1882-1889
- University fees increased and
from 1884 lost independence and
came under State Control
- From 1890 - government
reserved right to choose
juries.
- Land Captains used to
enforce local laws,
replacing locally elected
justices of the peace -
Land Captains were
members of aristocracy
appointed by Min
- From 1890 - Land Captains
made members of Zemstva
(loyal)
- From 1890 - Land Captains
made members of Zemstva
(loyal)
- Russification - hard to
control people who speak
different language.
- Launched campaign of
repression of all those supporting
political reform
- Foreign books and newspapers
rigorously censored “knowledge is
power”
- Okhrana - secret police
- Nicolai Bunge introduced
laws to reduce tax burden on
peasants.
- Peasants Land Bank to
provide loan facilities for
peasants.
- 1882 - higher courses
for women were to be
gradually closed
- 1886 - final closure of
higher courses for
women
- 1882 - child labour was
regulated and working hours
were reduced
- 1883 - dissenters were not
allowed to build new centres of
worship, wear religious clothes
outside their church, or engage
in religious propaganda
- 1882-1890 - laws to
provide compulsory
education for young
factory children
- Reduction of hours
worked by women at
night
- Factory inspectors
appointed to enforce
legislation and to
supervise labourers living
and working condtions.
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