Extent of change

• Tolstoy (Minister of Education) - insisted on a return to a classical curriculum. Unis were forbidden from including any subjects that encouraged critical thinking (1871)
• 1878: Vera Zasulich case led to further reservals
• Peasants could own property and land, but nobles got the best land and had to pay land compensation
• Russia remained a very rural society, with lower classes making up 80%
• Peasants still controlled by mir, strict rules and regulations
• Peasant housing was mostly the same (no reforms under Alexander II)
• Reversal of reforms, e.g removal of trial by jury, reversal of education reforms
• Major education reforms in 1864, but education wasn't entirely equal across Russia and Ministry of Education had final say on what was to be taught