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Socialist Revolutionaries wanted the peasant revolutions to encourage the creation of socialism based around the peasant communities. Therefore the peasants would have a say in what was going on in their country and how they wanted things ran. The Social Democrats want the urban working classes to stage a revolution so that a socialist state could be created.
A repressive and major influence of toward Nicholas was Pobedonostsev, Originally his childhood tutor and later the chief minister in the Russian government. Pobedonostsev was as the ?the grand inquisitor? because of his repressive attitude and an arch-conservative who had a deep distaste for all form of liberalism and democracy.
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