Sataragaga

Czarist Russia

Intellectuals

This class was the educated class that worked for the improvement of Russia. The difference between the early and later intellectuals is that the early had an active role in the tsarist government while the later intellectuals were activists that were mostly against the government. The intellectuals wanted to modernize Russia by "westernizing" and moving away from autocracy and more towards democracy. Some nationalism views of the Slavs wanted to stay away from industrialization and center more around farming. There were two different groups of intellectuals, the Populist and Marxist. The populists would go to the peasants, sometimes even dressed to look like them, to recruit them to revolt against the government. On the other hand, Marxist focused more on a classless society, where the lower class overthrows the upper class. The work of the intellectuals were very challenging with many road blocks. Ideas were unable to be spread due to illiteracy. Russification was now taking place so the people would not revolt against the Czar.This is why the government police took action and punished members by inprisoning and exiling. Some groups became extreme and succeded to assasinate Alexander II, a Czar from the Romanov Dynasty. This class would defently support the idea of Revolution. This is what they stood for. Their goal was to better Russia, and Revolution is how they would get there.

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