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L-21 Part III Era of Great Reforms 7. Crisis and Counter-Reform, 1879-94

L-21 Part III Era of Great Reforms 7. Crisis and Counter-Reform, 1879-94. A. Theses. Precursors of crisis & counterreform Crisis of Autocracy, 1879-81 Restoration: Law and order, 1881-85 Dynamic Autocracy, 1885-94. B. Crisis of Autocracy. Society in revolt “Dictatorship of the Heart”

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L-21 Part III Era of Great Reforms 7. Crisis and Counter-Reform, 1879-94

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  1. L-21Part III Era of Great Reforms7. Crisis and Counter-Reform, 1879-94

  2. A. Theses • Precursors of crisis & counterreform • Crisis of Autocracy, 1879-81 • Restoration: Law and order, 1881-85 • Dynamic Autocracy, 1885-94

  3. B. Crisis of Autocracy • Society in revolt • “Dictatorship of the Heart” • Assassination and reaction

  4. 1. Society in Revolt • Elites • Workers and Peasants • Narodnaia volia

  5. Ivan Petunkevich, Tver zemstvo leader

  6. “The first and most important of society’s unsatisfied demands is the demand for an opportunity to act. . . . The Russian people are becoming more and more impressed with the conviction that an empire so extensive, and a social life so complicated, as ours cannot be managed exclusively by chinovniki (officials).” 1881 memorandum S.A. Muromtsev, Zemstvo Leader

  7. Misunderstanding and distrust have spread like a blight . . . Between the nobility and the people, between the government and society, between the educated and uneducated, and even between members of the same classes of society…. Everything is out of joint, everything has lost its foundations; discontent is everywhere. Ivan Aksakov (Conservative Publicist)

  8. What I hear [in Spb] from highly placed and learned men makes me sick, as if I were in the company of half-wits and perverted apes. I hear everywhere the trite, deceitful, and accursed word “constitution.” This word, I fear, has made its way into high circles and is taking root. Konstantin PobedonostsevChief Procurator of the Synod, 1880-1905

  9. Rural and Urban Unrest, 1877-82

  10. 2. “Dictatorship of the Heart” Mikhail Loris-Melikov

  11. 3. Political Terror • Ideology: Race against the clock • Asymmetry of power: terror

  12. Terror and Assassination Sergei Khalturin

  13. Alexander II: Lying in state3 March 1881

  14. Pervomartovtsy: 1st of March People Nikolai Kibal’chich Aleksandr Mikhailov Andrei Zheliabov Sofia Perovskaia

  15. Pervomartovtsy: 1st of March Assassins Ignatii Grinevitskii Nikolai Sablin Gesia Gel’fman Nikolai Rysakov

  16. Trial of PervomartovtsyRysakov, Mikhailov, Gel’fman, Kibal’chich, Perovskaia, Zheliabov)

  17. Hanging of the Five Pervomartovtsy (15.04.1881)

  18. 4. Defeat of the Liberal Gosudarstvenniki • Battle at the top • The “pineapple” proclamation of 28.4.81 • Why Loris-Melikov and the gosudarstvenniki failed

  19. C. Restoring Order • Alexander III • Repression • Zemskii Sobor • Social Concessions • Counter-Reforms • Revolutionary threat

  20. 1. Alexander III

  21. Alexander III: Family Man

  22. Alexander III: Office and Meeting with the “People”

  23. 2. Repression

  24. 3. Zemskii sobor(Nikolai Ignat’ev, Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

  25. Pobedonostsev on Ignatev’s Zemskii Sobor Even if I believed in the zemskii sobor of ancient Russia, I would still stop in amazement before such a thought [of its reestablishment]. Ancient Russia was all one place in its simplicity of concepts, customs, and state requirements. And now it is proposed that we call together a motley, ill-assorted assemblage from contemporary Russia, which is a universe composed of two parts of the earth! Here are the Caucasus and Siberia, and Central Asia, and the Baltic Germans, and Poland, and Finland! And to this babble of tongues we are supposed to present the question of what to do at the present movement. To my mind, this is the height of absurdity for the state. May God deliver us from such a calamity. (Letter to Alexander III, 4 May 1882)

  26. 4. Social Concessions • Nobility • Peasantry • Workers

  27. 5. Counter-Reforms • Church • Education • Censorship • Judiciary

  28. 6. Revolutionary Threat Aleksandr Ul’ianov

  29. D. Dynamic Autocracy • Policy: reactionaries and modernizers • Bureaucracy

  30. ReactionariesDmitrii A. Tolstoi “Experience demonstrates that, in peasant administration, corporal punishment is a useful, often the only, way of influencing the people—given the peasantry’s low moral and intellectual level.” (1886 memo in defense of corporal punishment)

  31. ReactionariesPrince Vladimir Meshcherskii “There is in Russia an unquestionable truth, recognized by the people. This is the need for flogging. Yet almost everybody—liberal or conservative—urges that it be abolished. But wherever you go, everywhere among the people, there is but one cry: flog us, flog us, flog us.”

  32. 2. ModernizersK.P. Pobedonostsev

  33. 2. ModernizersSergei Witte

  34. 3. Bureaucracy • Elites: incremental change • Provincial bureaucracy: rapid expansion, democratization

  35. State Council: Social Origin

  36. State Council: Education

  37. State Council: Religion

  38. State Council: Major Estate Ownership (over 5,000 des.)

  39. Governors: Social Origin

  40. Governors: Education

  41. E. Modernizing from Above • Economy • Administrative infrastructure: land captain • Zemstvo and Duma • Russification

  42. 1. Economy

  43. 2. Administrative Infrastructure: Land captain

  44. 3. Zemstvo and Duma • 1890 Zemstvo Law • 1892 Duma Law

  45. 5. Autocrat as Linchpin: Alexander III

  46. Return of Alexander III to Kronshtadt (8 November 1894)

  47. F. Conclusion • Crisis of Autocracy • From Restoration to Dynamic Autocracy • Revolutionaries: terror and regrouping

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