Tsarist authority between 1800 and 1900 went through many changes. In 1881 Alexander II was assassinated by ‘The Peoples Will’, this then lead to the introduction of the repressive ‘temporary laws’. The People’s Will was the group that assassinated Alexander II. They did this because after October 1979, when the Land and Liberty split into two groups. The Land and Liberty group had been set up in 1876, after two Russian writers had published the book ‘Catechism of a Revolutionist’. This book had a great affect on young Russians and it was then that the people who did support the views of the writers form the group.

The members who favoured terrorism set up the People’s Will the other members who did not join the People’s Will set up the Black Repartition, which was a group the did not agree with terrorism and supported a social propaganda campaign among the workers and peasants.

After the murder of his father, Alexander III t

The different ethnic groups also caused problems for Tsarist Authority in the late nineteenth century. Russia covered over eight million square miles of the world in 1881, it covered a large part of two continents. The size of Russia gave an impression of great strength which was misleading. The population was made of wide variety of people from different races that spoke different languages, had different religions and cultures. Tsar Nicholas II and his government had difficulty controlling these different people over such a vast territory, as the different groups all wanted different things from their Tsar. Each group wanted independence and thought that the other groups should follow them and speak the same language as they did.

“The conditions of the Russian workers are such that they are deprived of the most elementary civil rights. They must not dare to gather together, to discuss their affairs together, to organise unions, to publish statements”

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