HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sergey Uvarov, Autocracy, Westernization
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One must obey and keep one"s thoughts to oneself . Like his father and grandfather, he had a love of everything military - especially obedience and saw himself as commander and chief. Loved prussia, married a prussian woman - there is a tradition among russian rulers that if you love prussia, you love reactionary. Was not murdered like his father or grandfather, he was in power for 30 years. The three previous revolutionary tsars (catherine, peter, alexander) wanted to reform, until they realized how dangerous it could be > however, nicholas was the opposite of the previous three, didn"t want to turn russia into western, european country. However, russia had become too western already, so he had to borrow ideas from the. The decembrist movement caused nicholas to realize that the western ideas led to instability, revolt - even among the highest of the nobilities > it needed to be stamped out wherever it maybe.
