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Not great depth, but gives a decent overview. I bought this for the section on Ivan the Terrible as I needed to know about him for parallels with Stalin, who I teach about. I’m sure I’ll come back to it if I ever need info on other Czars.
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Emancipation On 3 March 1861, Alexander II issued what seemed on the face of it the most revolutionary reform in Russia’s history – his ‘Manifesto on the Emancipation of the Serfs’. The edict freed 23 million serfs from their bondage to
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