HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Autocracy, Okhrana, Mikhail Katkov
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Introduction: last week, position that held a lot of popularity, literary influence in terrorism. Easiest is to crack down, minority of people, if imprison them all take care of it. These are young teenagers, getting ahead of themselves, flog them sober them and return to productive citizens. One argument (especially within police) making: also: supported by government people and small population of russian education, idea of bringing together a coherent national identity to counter ideas of social revolution. Have to address question of social injustice, but if could do so, buy off loyalty of vast number of. Russians who soon see to keep on side of russian national tradition and tsar and avoid revolutionary pitfalls that might tempt them response was construction of russian. National identity: one thing russia found difficult to borrow from west (until 1917), was nationality, in way other european states had little problem with articulating and propping up a national identity (france and germany).
