ALEX Ii form reactions

• 1866 - karakazov - first assassination attempt

  • Univerity students
  • Conservatives use it as an excuse to claim reforms were bad
  • Alex decides on more reactionary policies since the peasantry werent happy and neither the nobles
• Liberal ministers end up fired

  • liberal family are barred from seeing him
• shuvalov is appointed - very very strict :

  • made sure conservatives got posts
  • tightened censorship
  • control students
  • milotary courts to reach verdicts for gov favour
  • rule by decree more
• count Tolstoy becomes new education minister
• • ministry controlled schools over liberal zemstva
  • appoint teachers abd keep eye on their views
• Classical subject were preferred over the critical ones - Tolstoy had science removed from schools
• Uni entry restricted to classical subjects and this favoured nobility
• students associated with revolution expelled ad police involved