1. This fuelled dissatisfaction with the repressive structures of tsarism.

2. It was upon serfdom that the critics of Tsarism rapidly came to focus their attention.

3. The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.

4. The first revolution on the agenda, therefore, was the bourgeois-democratic overthrow of tsarism and abolition of feudal remnants.

5. Russia did not join in the bourgeois revolution, and there appeared absolutely Tsarism, autarchy, terror, individual superstition and police country after its revolution.

6. The institutions of civil society, suppressed by centuries of tsarism and obliterated by Soviet-era state brutality, remain weak.