Round 9: Tossup 18

Description Acceptable. A speech to the Marshals of Nobility claimed that it was better to perform “[this action] from above” than to wait for it to happen “from below.” The Bezdna unrest began two months after this action, which also created “cut-off lands” called otrezki (15[1])(“ah-TRAY-skih”). A 49-year “redemption tax” was charged to communities called mir after (15[1])this action. (15[1])Nikolay Milyutin created the (*) zemstvo system of local government in the wake of this action, (-5[1])which may have been motivated by losing the Crimean War. Twenty years after taking this action, a ruler was assassinated (10[1])by the People’s Will. (10[1])For 10 points, Alexander II took what liberating action in 1861? ■END■

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