Alexander III

• AIII had a strong reaction to AII's assassination. Leading members of People's Will were arrested and hanged.
• Orthodoxy was promoted over other religions- forbidden to wear religious dress or build new places of worship
• There was a new committee of censorship in 1882
• Statute on Measures for the Preservation of Political Order and Social Tranquility effectively created a police state. There were full powers to arrest, interrogate and imprison
• In 1882, the statue of police surveillance allowed police to search and monitor correspondence of exiles and develop a spy network
• The Okhrana arrested, interrogated, tortured and sent them to prison or exile in Siberia or the island or Sakhalin
• Judicial reforms- ended security of tenure for judges and closed court sessions introduced for cases involving 'the dignity of state power.' elected JPs abolished and replaced by land captains with judicial powers. Erosion of local democracy and the rule of law