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The
intelligentsia wanted radical political change and deep
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social reform
while preserving a distinct Russian culture.
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Some of the
intellectuals became anarchists who hoped to
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triumph by
winning peasant support.
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When peasants
were not interested, some turned to terrorism.
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The government
reaction was to pull back from reform,
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introduce
censorship, and exile dissidents to Siberia.
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Alexander II
was assassinated in 1881
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His successors
opposed reform and continued political,
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religious, and
ethnic repression.
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