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The problem of reform in Imperial Russia, The response to Nicholas II'…
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The role of pobedonostev
As a young man, Nicholas was tutored by Pobedonostev, a man who had great influence on Imperial Russia. He was the chief minister in the Russian government from 1881 to 1905. His thin frame and pale skin gave him the appearance of a living corpse. His frightening appearance matched the fearful ideas that he had.
Known as the 'Great Inquisitor' because of his repressive ideas, he was an arch-conservative who had deep distaste for all forms of liberalism and democracy. He dismissed the idea of representative government as the 'great lie of our time' and to him, autocracy was the only possible government for imperial Russia.
The Russian en masse were too uneducated, vulgar and uninformed to govern themselves that they needed to be controlled and directed. Such concessions would allow troublemakers to cause disruption.
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Russification
A policy that began under Alexander III and Nicholas carried on. This was a seriously enforced method of restricting the influence of Non-Russian national minorities within the empire by emphasising the importance and superiority of all things Russian.
Russian was declared the first official language and this meant that all legal proceedings had to be conducted in Russian. Public office was closed to those not fluent in the language and the aim was to impose Russian ways and values on all the peoples within the nation.
discrimination agains non-Russians became more apparent and open.
State interference on education, religion and culture became widespread and systematic.
Anti-Semitism
Over 600 new measures were introduced imposing heavy social, political and economical restrictions on the Jewish population. The most onerous of these was the requirement for Jews to live in discrete districts or ghettoes.
it was made easy to render Jews and scapegoat them by restricting them. They could then be blamed for Russia's issues.
A group of ultra-conservative Russian nationalists called 'Black Hundreds' were notorious for attacking Jews and this showed how ingrained anti-semitism was in the tsarist regime. This was proof of the tsar's encouragement on attacking and terrorising the jews.
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