Western Civilization II / Unit 11 WC2 1022 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alexander III, Reaction, and the Impasse Before 1905
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The idea
Alexander III hunted the terrorists and ruled as a reactionary. By the eighteen eighties every intellectual, the anchor says, believed in radical restructuring: revolution or nothing. Russia changed least of the powers, autocratic and agricultural, industrializing only around western cities at the century's end. The impasse ended by revolution.
In practice
Nineteen oh-five and nineteen seventeen.
Where people slip
The anchor's generalization about intellectuals is attributed.
Your place on the trail
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