HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
8 Mar 2017
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History 2q03 - imperial russia - week 6. Annual budgets - reformed the ministry of finance. Rule of law - western notion, the supremacy of the law. Richard pipes said- > russian citizens were not taught the rule of law and did not have property: his plans were not adopted except for the council of state, but were adopted over time. Alexander: republican in words, autocrat in deeds. he became more embittered during his reign, la harpe returned to russia (1801) and tried to advise alexander against the freedom of peoples assemblies and liberal enthusiasm in general. Just recipes for violence and con ict and the safe course was to keep the autocracy in tact: intelligent, pleasant, and educated, but he cannot be trusted; he is insincere, a genuine byzantine. Subtle, affected and sly. : alexander is as subtle as the point of a pin in politics, sharp as a razor and as ckle as sea foam.
