What were the reasons for emancipation?
Across
- 5. Members of the royal family had seen serfdom as ethically wrong since who?
- 8. A radical _______, growing in size, opposed serfdom
- 10. Some believed that forced labour stopped the growth of what?
- 11. _____ brothers, liberal-minded nobles who were driving forces behind emancipation
- 12. Military reformers believed Russia's army should have what?
- 15. What Alexander II's tutor taught him to be
- 16. The brothers in clue 11 showed the impact of which kind of ideas?
Down
- 1. Some believed that free labour was more what than forced?
- 2. Year in which there was a significant spike in peasant disturbances, as well as clue 3
- 3. Year in which there was a significant spike in peasant disturbances, as well as clue 2
- 4. The majority of nobles thought emancipation would be ______ to both themselves and the state
- 6. Writer who drew attention to the plight of the serfs
- 7. Serfdom needed to be abolished to carry out which kind of reforms?
- 9. Alexander II thought it best to abolish serfdom from where?
- 13. Military reformers believed Russia's army should be what, as well as better trained?
- 14. Name of Alexander II's tutor