Imperial Russia
Outline #14
Professor Knight

The Great Reforms

Emancipation of the Serfs-1861
Juridical Reforms-1864
Reforms of Local Administration-1864
Military Reforms-1873

I.  The Process of Emancipation
	March 30, 1856-Alexander II gives speech before Moscow Nobility
	November 1857-Nazimov Rescript
	Provincials Committees of Nobles
	Main Committee for Peasant Affairs
		Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich
		Nikolai Miliutin
	Editing Commission
		Jakov Rostovtsev
		P. P. Semenov
	Emancipation proclaimed:  February 19, 1861

II.  The Conditions of Emancipation
	Uprising in Bezdna (Kazan Province)
	Redeption Payments (49 years)
	State Bonds to compensate noble landlords
	Peace Mediators
	"Temporarily Obliged" peasants
	Beggar's Allotments 
	Differences in Land Prices
	The Commune
	Krugovaia Porukha (Mutual accountability)
	Internal Passports

III.  The Reform of Local Administration (1864)
	Zemstvos (Land Councils)
		Created at Provincial and District (County) level
		Election by property criteria
		Peasant participate, Nobles dominate
	Unresolved Issues:
		Relation to state administration
		National Zemstvo (Crowning of the Ediface)
		Township (Volost) Zemstvo (Small Zemstvo Unit)

IV  Legal Reforms (1864)-Trial by Jury, Independent Judiciary.