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Name: Dontae Joseph Teacher: Mr. Walters Period: 4 Date: The Day Before Yesterday Directions: Using R.R. Palmer’s A History of the Modern World complete the Palmer Study Guide Questions (SGQ) listed below. The SGQ will help in your understanding of critical course content and historical analysis. The SGQ are individual assignments and are to be completed individually. Consult your APEH calendar for the assignment due date and your APEH Course Introduction for details regarding late penalty points or questions on the cheating and plagiarism policy. Fully developed, supported, explained, typed and proofed answers will receive the most credit. Please include the questions with the answers. Contact Mr. Walters immediately if you have questions or concerns. 66. Liberalization in Tsarist Russia: Alexander II Study Questions 1 How did the autocracy in Russia differ from absolutism in the West? That Russia differed from Europe at least in degree was doubted by nobody. The leading institution was the…show more content…
Indicate the additional steps taken by Alexander in 1880 to win liberal support. What changes took place under his successor? The revolutionaries were not pleased with the reforms, which if successful would merely strengthen the existing order. Dissatisfied intelligentsia in the 18602 began to call themselves "nihilists": they beleived in "nothing"--except science--and took a cynical view of the reforming tsar and him zemstvos. The peasants, saddled with heavy redemption payments, remained basically unsatisfied, and intellectuals toured the villaged fanning this discontent. Alexander III his fathers succesor abandonded the project for eleceted commisions and during his whole reign, from 1881 to 1894 reverted to a program of brutal resistance to liberals and revolutionaries alike. the new engine established by peasant emancipation, judicial reform, and the zemstvos was nevertheless allowed to
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