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 2ndicative Content:
‡ Nobles against reform
± previous system suited them well
‡ Would any reform satisfy«
± Peasants? Nobility? Government?
‡ Terms of E were complicated
± Took two years
‡ Economic situation of peasants changed
little
± Act said land still the nobles, feudal dues
owed
 2ndicative Content (2):
‡ Landlords had to sell and peasants had to
buy
± Fixed limits to prices
‡ Household serfs freed, but had to seek
waged labour
‡ Government eventually paid landlords«
± «but peasants had redemption payments
‡ Limited freedoms for the peasants
± Still ruled by the mir
 2ndicative Content (3):
‡ Nobles lost free labour and feudal dues,
also lost influence
‡ Peasants complaints were compounded
by rising population ± increased demand
for land
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 2ndicative Content:
‡ ³clearly unsuccessful´ as assassinated
‡ Broad definition of ³opposition´
± Most Russians happy with the regime, or too
conservative to change
‡ Serfs unhappy with the terms of
emancipation
‡ Many nobles unhappy (see previous
slides) but few R R
 the regime
 2ndicative Content (2):
‡ Although disappointment with some
reforms, none fundamentally changed
Russia«
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 2ndicative Content (2):
‡ Although disappointment with some
reforms, none fundamentally changed
Russia
‡ Any opposition was itself made difficult
because of repression and censorship
‡ 2ntelligentsia and students wanted liberal
reforms, but were not revolutionary
‡ Any opponents (Populists) were a small
minority
 Q2 Conclusion (?):
‡ Therefore when reforms dried up early
1860¶s, state firmly in control

‡ Extent of threat of opposition can be

debated, little evidence Alex 22 worked
hard to restrain what little opposition there
was