SOCIAL POLICIES

• What was the emancipation edict?

  1861

  • farmed 20% less than previosuly
  • redemption tax = 49 years at 6%'
• What reforms did A2 make for education?

  poor excempt from paying fees for higher education

  • by 1859 = 2/3 of all students at moscow = excempt
• How many people learned the basics of reading and writing during A2's reign?

  1874-1894

  • 2-3m
• What was russificiation?

  aim to rid Russia from western ideas that A3 beleived had weakened the nation + reduced its national identity
• What inpact did A3 have on peasants?

  • not allowed to attened secondary education
  • 1886 Poll tax abolished
  • 1883 Peasant land banks (by 1904 peasants had purchased 1/3 of all landlord estates)
• Why did the 1891 famine have such a large inpact?

  • too little too late
  • A3 2 state lotteries to raise money for relief
• What were Stolypins reforms?

  Peasant land banks

  • however many too scared to move into the city
  • 2 million moved by ww1
  • stolypins necktie = mobile gallows,

  1905: 10 excuted

  1908 = 825
• What happened to the attendence of primary schools under N2?


  x2
• What was lenins aims for education?

  free + compulsary for all

  • but war hindered this