Constitutional Russia after Alexander II Survived Assassination

wiki said:
After Alexander became emperor in 1855, he maintained a generally liberal course. Despite this, he was a target for numerous assassination attempts (1866, 1879, 1880). On 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1881, members of the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) party killed him with a bomb. The Emperor had earlier in the day signed the Loris-Melikov constitution which would have created two legislative commissions made up of indirectly elected representatives, had it not been repealed by his reactionary successor Alexander III.

So what if Imperator Aleksandr II survived the assassination and Loris-Melikov constitution was passed?

What would be the the consequences of a quarter-century earlier reform? ( prior to OTL Stolypin Reforms?)

By the way, did anyone know the clauses of the constitution?
 
From what I understand, it was not actually a constitution. It was merely the first step in a process that might result in a constitution in the future. Instead, the "constitution" were merely a set of commissions of members appointed by the Tsar that would recommend or implement a variety of reforms. The reforms were designed to 1) make administration more systematic, 2) encourage more public participation, and 3) decentralize some decision making. It was more of an administrative overhaul and pushing more power to the zemstvo.

As such, I don't think there were any clauses, limits on the Tsar's powers, or anything else we associate with the word constitutionalism.
 
From what I understand, it was not actually a constitution. It was merely the first step in a process that might result in a constitution in the future. Instead, the "constitution" were merely a set of commissions of members appointed by the Tsar that would recommend or implement a variety of reforms. The reforms were designed to 1) make administration more systematic, 2) encourage more public participation, and 3) decentralize some decision making. It was more of an administrative overhaul and pushing more power to the zemstvo.

As such, I don't think there were any clauses, limits on the Tsar's powers, or anything else we associate with the word constitutionalism.

This aligns w/what I found.
 
Yup - series of commissions designed to look at the administration of the empire - still a pretty fundamental overhaul and in many ways it might have begun the slow transformation of the Russian state.
Alexander II was just as committed to the autocracy as his son and grandson.
 
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