HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
8 Mar 2017
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History 2q03 - imperial russia - week 8. Third department - root out any radical or revolutionary thought: was drawn into over time into con ict with a growing intelligentsia. Fourth department -> in charge of charities and education, established 1828, nicholas was initially conservative with education: in 1827, he forbids serfs from entering into higher education. Nicholas" domestic reforms were inspired by the principles of of cial nationality: education was linked to morality and obedience, standardize how schools were run. People who educated children privately had to promote autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality. Kiselev (he was sympathetic to the decembrists, and nicholas is not as conservative as he was believed) Committee suggested that the reform of state peasants was possible can could serve as a form for reforming the estate peasants. Department of nance was responsible for the state serfs, but they did nothing (no improvements to farming, no improvements in peasants, state peasants were being poached by landowners)
