The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander II represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Ru

Accompanying the gradual systematization of government and modernization of society in Russia during the reforms of the 1860s was a policy of Russification towa

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“Anyone interested in digging deeper into some of the less-examined facets of late imperial and early Soviet Russia will be well rewarded.” —American Hist

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