History A-Level
Urban reform
What Urban reform means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Urban reform
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The municipal statute of 1870, which created elected councils in towns similar to the zemstvos.
Topics that use Urban reform
- Paper 3, Option 38.1: The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991 - 1 The political reforms of Alexander II, 1855–70 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Autocracy and reform
- Education and intellectual life
- Military modernisation
- Rule of law
- Zemstvo work
- Censorship and the public sphere
- Conscription and society
- Impact of defeat
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