HIST 245 Lecture 4: Hist 245 Week 4.docx
16 Apr 2015
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Week 4 lecture 2 october 3, 2013. Masonic movement spring up under catherine: masonry was popular in russia. Conspiratorial, secretive, belonging only to a few. It declares main task is founding hospitals, building schools, encouraging prison reform. Under catherine they would have achieved approval, but now members believed there would be no good coming out of peaceful involvement in society. Not sure how to do it gradually. Was enamored by aspects of french terror thought constitutional monarchy was as bad as any monarchy: every form of gov"t will end with despotism, can"t have a monarch anymore. Kiev by january 3rd 1826 the decemberist is done: crushing revolution, the trial. Siberia and 85 exiled for terms in siberia. Many came back and had productive lives: execution and exile execution was a glorious moment all destined and doomed to die, thought that was a good thing.
