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Alexander II and the Great Reforms: Emancipation and Empire
Tsar Alexander II, the ‘Tsar-Liberator,’ freed 23 million serfs in 1861, but his Great Reforms stretched far beyond emancipation. This episode unpacks the Emancipation Edict, the zemstvo local government system, judicial reforms that introduced trial by jury, and the military overhaul led by Dmitry Milyutin. We explore the tensions between reform and autocracy, the rise of the intelligentsia, the Polish January Uprising of 1863, and the assassination attempts that culminated in the People’s Will bombing on March 1, 1881. Along the way, we meet figures like Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Katkov…
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