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Opposition to the Tsar (Industrialisation bad for the people of Russia…
Opposition to the Tsar
Industrialisation bad for the people of Russia
Peasants
still paying redemption payments
farmed smaller landholdings than before emancipation
nobles kept the best land - leaving peasants with poor soil
Farming had not evolved much since Middle ages
old fashioned crop rotation
Peasants could not leave without asking permission from the mir
migrated to the town to earn extra money
Urban workers
Town workers earned very little
Factory hours not regulated
Witte introduced 11 1/2 hour working day in 1897
often ignored
Factories meant to be regularly inspected
over crowed and insanitary
Health and education poor - creating inequality
Life expectancy under 30yrs
Social unrest
Town
industrial labourers suffered the most under Witte's industrialisation
Weren't allowed to form trade unions
no legal political parties
town dwellers were only 20% of pop but caused increased radical force
Countryside
needs were put after the need to industralise
Peasants resented the high taxes and lack of gov support
Liberals
Led to the growth of educated middle class
politically active
wanted autocracy to be replaced by a constitution
1903 - formed league of liberation
shorted working days, more land for peasants and elected parliment
Social revolutionaries/democrats
SR's
supported peasants and Urban workers
Redistribute the land
Improve living conditions in towns
Overthrow the Tsar
SD's
Followed the beliefs of Karl Marx
Supported the workers
Split in 1898
Bolsheviks - led by Lenin
Menshevik who believed in communism
Okhrana watched SD's due to rev principles