? starter activity

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? starter activity
Manifesto
Read Tsar Alexander IIs Manifesto to the Russian
People (1856). What evidence does the manifesto
provide that the Tsar intends to reform society?
What evidence is there that the Tsar is still
very conservative?
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Were the Tsars reactionaries or reformers?
? Aims

• Study the personality of Tsar Alexander II
• Analyse the problems facing the Tsars
• Evaluate the success or failure of their reforms

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? Your task

• What would be the main areas which Alexander II
  would need to reform? Discuss you ideas with your
  partner and draw up a hit list.

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Areas in need of reform
Muscovites at a tram stop

• Freedom from serfdom
• Army reforms
• Local government reforms
• Law
• Censorship press
• Educational reforms
• Economy
• Nationalities

Peasant women pulling a boat along the Volga
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? Your task
Table

• Work in small groups. You will each be given an
  area of reform to research. Explain to the class
  the actions Tsar Alexander II took to reform your
  given area and explain who might have opposed the
  reforms and why.