HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Balanced Budget, Religious Persecution, Self-Publishing
23 Feb 2017
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Russia while europe was changing, and he was a terrible man. Using these 19th century sources, textbooks say that nicholas stagnated. Though he knew nothing of poetry, he would censor pushkin. Hard to admire man who killed or exiled these great writers. (erzen left russia to go to england and lecture on russia"s true nature. Look today at his character, background, problems he faced, (cid:498)dream of a beautiful autocracy(cid:499) exception of maybe paul. Most historians consider him to be the worst tsar in russian history, with the. His regime is the low-point of reaction. One of the reasons for this harsh treatment is he alienated one of the most influential parts of the russian population. Nicholas was an afterthought in the family, 17 years younger than his brother. Had to make an appointment to see his mother for 15 minutes. He grew up, not in atmosphere of french revolution, but rather during.
