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12 Cards in this Set
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Alexander II Aims |
Sam Olofsson: “His need to modernise came from hisneed to establish autocratic rule” |
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Alexander II Aims II |
Larissa Zakharova: “Alexander wasautocratic in both his principles and his actions” |
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Emancipation of the Serfs 1861 I |
John Grenville: “Nothing more than acruel joke” |
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Emancipation of the Serfs 1861 II |
Westwood: “Despite imperfectionsthe emancipation program was an enormous step forward and no Russian rulerbrought so much relief to so many” |
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Emancipation of the Serfs 1861 III |
David Christian: “the emancipation wasa success in achieving its immediate objectives” |
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Alexander II Legal Reforms |
Senton-Watson: “the court room wasthe one place in Russia were the real freedom of speech prevailed” |
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Alexander II Government Reforms - Zemstva |
A J Rieber: “It was designed withthe interest of the nobility at heart” |
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Alexander II Education Reforms I |
David Saunders: “Education reforms grewstudent radicalism and teaching lectures appeared to be serving not onlyacademic and economic purposes but also the promotion of political instability” |
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Alexander II Education Reforms II |
Senton-Watson: claims “he tried to seek an unrealistic compromise between autocracyand liberal reforms" |
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Alexander II Later Reaction I |
W Bruce Lincoln: “By the end ofAlexander II’s rule, the state and autocracy was in no way changed, the tsarstill had total power” |
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Alexander II Nature of Tsardom |
G Stevenson: “Nothing Alexander didalter, was intended to alter the fundamental political fact of a God-createdautocracy” |
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Alexander II General |
Senton-Watson: “Tried to reach thebest between two worlds but failed as he tried to reach an unreal compromisebetween autocracy and modern reforms” |