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Tsar Alexander II: The Reformer Who Was Hunted by Bombs
Alexander II is remembered as the Tsar-Liberator for freeing the serfs, but his reign was a high-wire act between reform and repression. After the Emancipation Edict of 1861, he unleashed the Great Reforms: zemstvo local councils, judicial independence, military overhaul, and relaxed censorship. Yet the same reforms bred new radicals who demanded more. From the first 'shot' of Karakozov in 1866 to the People's Will's relentless bombing campaign, Alexander II survived multiple assassination attempts while his son, the future Alexander III, watched his grandfather die in the…
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