Imperial Russia
Outline #16
Professor Knight

Defenders of the Old Order: Alexander III and the Counterreforms

I.  Dilemmas of Autocracy
	Defeat in Victory:  Repression breeds Revolution
	Glasnost' vs. Proizvol:  The role of civil society
	Modernization without Democracy?
	Siege Mentality

II.  Bureaucratic Factions
	Enlightened Bureaucrats
		Petr Valuev, Nikolai and Dmitrii Miliutin, Mikhail Reitern.  A. V. 	Golovnin.
	Defenders of Autocracy
		Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Dmitrii Tolstoy

III.  Pendulum Swings
	Polish Rebellion-1863
	Karakozov attempts to assassinate Alexander II-1866
	Dmitrii Tolstoy appointed Minister of  Education-1867
		Reform of Secondary Education-Classical curriculum
	Russo-Turkish War-1876-1877
	Trial of Vera Zasulich-1878
	People's Will Campaign to Assassinate Alexander II-1879-1881
	General Mikhail Loris-Melikov:  Dictatorship of the Heart
		Loris Melikov's "Constitution"

IV.  The Counter Reforms
	Alexander III (ruled 1881-1894)
	N. I. Ignat'ev: Minister of Internal Affairs-1881-1883
	The Kakhanov Commission (1881-1884)
	Dmitrii Tolstoy appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, 1883.	
	New University Charter, 1884
		Minister of Education-"No more cook's sons"
	Alexander Pazukhin: Marshall of the Nobility from Samara Province.
	Reform of Local Administration: 1889
		Land Captains (Zemskii nachal'niki)
	Zemstvo Reform, 1890
	Mood of Society: "Small deeds liberalism"