Alex III: Education, censorship and religion

key facts and figures

DATE: higher courses for women are gradually closed

1882-86

DATE: State control over unis to try to stamp out riots

1884

Where and when were the uni riots

Kazan and St Petersburg 1882

DATE: Increased uni fees and gimnazii fees to keep out lower clases

1887

DATE: Vocational Schools set up

1888

What was the church encouraged to do

Given more control of primary education and encouraged to open schools

DATE: Protestant dissenters deemed extremely dangerous and BANNED

1894

DATE: Church schools rose from 4000 - 31,000

1892-5

How much did church schools increase by 

4,000-31,000

What percentage of population were literate in 1897

21%

DATE: 21% of population are literate

1897

Evidence of conservatism in education, censorship and religion

Students banned from forming school orgs

Curriculum changed to encourage russification and orthodoxy

Only middle class got secondary edu and only wealthy go to uni

Evidence of liberalism in education, censorship and religion

underground student orgs were still set up despite censorship - didnt do much though

Dates of Alex III rule

1881- 1894