HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lemonade, Ultraist Movement, Ivan Turgenev
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Polarization of russian society occurred instantly after emancipation: split into 2 camps, new generation of activists that take slavophile and westernizer diatomite, and each group has own progeny. Question why: answers: disassifaction with reforms. Peasants after 1861 still poor, still struggled, mortality rates still high but decreasing, and hunger, disease death still problem, mostly illiterate and seemed to people who went and observed saw lives no better off. Reform in name own, subsistent peasant question had not been resolved: nobles still controlled major institutions tshnskov, peaants could participate not interesting to revolutionaries. Nobility in partition of land took best land for themselves, peasants had to struggle on poor land often with nobility who holds pasture land, no way for peasants to have flocks. Context: the inadequacy of reform, existing conditions part of reason why radical movement came to be so popular, not just that.
