Alexander Ii Historiography

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Alexander II Aims

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Sam Olofsson: “His need to modernise came from hisneed to establish autocratic rule”

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Alexander II Aims II

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Larissa Zakharova: “Alexander wasautocratic in both his principles and his actions”

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Emancipation of the Serfs 1861 I

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John Grenville: “Nothing more than acruel joke”

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Emancipation of the Serfs 1861 II

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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

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David Christian: “the emancipation wasa success in achieving its immediate objectives”

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Alexander II Legal Reforms

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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

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A J Rieber: “It was designed withthe interest of the nobility at heart”

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Alexander II Education Reforms I

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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

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Senton-Watson: claims “he tried to seek an unrealistic compromise between autocracyand liberal reforms"

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Alexander II Later Reaction I

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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

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G Stevenson: “Nothing Alexander didalter, was intended to alter the fundamental political fact of a God-createdautocracy”

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Alexander II General

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Senton-Watson: “Tried to reach thebest between two worlds but failed as he tried to reach an unreal compromisebetween autocracy and modern reforms”