HIS351Y1 Lecture : Lecture Notes
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Peasants really didn t want much change other than wanting to acquire the land the gentry owned. These rural peasants made up 4/5ths of the population of the country. Photograph of village council only men sitting at the table. So who did want change: second half of the 19th century reform of educational system sees a growing number of educated people who had many opinions about the state the gentry didn t like this. Around 1900 there are various political parties formed. Prior to 1905 they could only be formed underground as being a member of a party would be a serious crime. Assumed system needed to be changed by violent means. Not only violence and force but also terror would be employed to change. For example if you could kill the tsar, or kill the son of his ministers or something like that then you could shake things up.
