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Less than a week after the disastrous defeat of Texas rebels at the Alamo, the newly commissioned Texan General Sam Houston begins a series of strategic retreats to buy time to train his ill-prepared army. Alexander II had assumed the throne in following his father Nicholas I and was a more liberal-minded leader than his predecessor.
He relaxed some of the restrictions placed against the Jews of Russia by his father, including abolishing the Cantonist system of Russification which had been established in The Cantonist system forced Jewish males, ages , away from their families into a program of Russian and Christian education in preparation for a year military conscription.
Jewish leaders had to supply a quota of youth and even hired kidnappers to take children as young as eight to meet the demands. Moving outside the Pale resulted in the development of Jewish communities in Moscow and St. In , Alexander became Emperor of All Russia upon the death of his father. He is known as the most reforming tsar since Peter the Great. His foremost accomplishment was the emancipation of the serfs in In addition, Alexander II reorganized the judicial system, established local self-government called Zemstvo , instituted universal military service in which sons of the rich and the poor were required to serve, ended some of the privileges of the nobility, and promoted higher education in the universities.
The group was led by Andrei Zhelyabov who was arrested a few days before the planned attack, and his lover Sophia Perovskaya. On March 13, , Alexander II signed an order creating several commissions, composed of government officials and prominent private individuals, to prepare reforms in various branches of the government.
Afterward, he attended Mass with the Imperial Family, the usual custom on Sunday. He promised he would return to the palace via the Catherine Canal Embankment instead. So also were sixteen other men suspected of terrorism. The government responded to the assassination attempt by appointing six military governor-generals that imposed a rigorous system of censorship on Russia.
All radical books were banned and known reformers were arrested and imprisoned. In October, , the Land and Liberty split into two factions. The majority of members, who favoured a policy of terrorism, established the People's Will. Soon afterwards the group decided to assassinate Alexander.
The following month Andrei Zhelyabov and Sophia Perovskaya used nitroglycerine to destroy the Tsar train. However, the terrorist miscalculated and it destroyed another train instead. An attempt the blow up the Kamenny Bridge in St. Petersburg as the Tsar was passing over it was also unsuccessful. The next attempt on Alexander's life involved a carpenter, Stefan Khalturin , who had managed to find work in the Winter Palace.
Allowed to sleep on the premises, each day he brought packets of dynamite into his room and concealed it in his bedding. On 17th February, , Khalturin constructed a mine in the basement of the building under the dinning-room. The mine went off at half-past six at the time that the People's Will had calculated Alexander would be having his dinner.
However, his main guest, Prince Alexander of Battenburg, had arrived late and dinner was delayed and the dinning-room was empty. Alexander was unharmed but sixty-seven people were killed or badly wounded by the explosion. The People's Will contacted the Russian government and claimed they would call off the terror campaign if the Russian people were granted a constitution that provided free elections and an end to censorship.
On 25th February, , Alexander announced that he was considering granting the Russian people a constitution. To show his good will a number of political prisoners were released from prison. Loris Melikof, the Minister of the Interior, was given the task of devising a constitution that would satisfy the reformers but at the same time preserve the powers of the autocracy. At the same time the Russian Police Department established a special section that dealt with internal security.
This unit eventually became known as the Okhrana. Under the control of Loris Melikof, the Minister of the Interior, undercover agents began joining political organizations that were campaigning for social reform.
In January, , Loris Melikof presented his plans to Alexander. They included an expansion of the powers of the Zemstvo. Under his plan, each zemstov would also have the power to send delegates to a national assembly called the Gosudarstvenny Soviet that would have the power to initiate legislation. Alexander was concerned that the plan would give too much power to the national assembly and appointed a committee to look at the scheme in more detail.
The People's Will became increasingly angry at the failure of the Russian government to announce details of the new constitution.
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