The Road to Revolution
nAlexander II's reforms and economic change encouraged minority nationality demands in the empire.
•Cultural nationalism led to political demands and worried the state.
•Social protest was heightened by the limitations of reform and by industrialization.
•Peasants suffered from famine,
redemption payments, taxes, and population pressure.
•Educated Russians also
were dissatisfied.
•Business people and
professionals sought more personal freedom and fuller political
rights.