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Tsarist autocracy (Russian: царское самодержавие, romanized: tsarskoye samoderzhaviye), also called Tsarism, was an autocracy, a form of absolute monarchy localised with the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire.
Nicholas I (reigned 1825–55) made Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality the main Imperialist doctrine of his reign. Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality (Russian: Правосла́вие, самодержа́вие, наро́дность; transliterated: Pravoslávie, samoderzhávie, naródnost'), also known as Official Nationalism, [1] [2] was the dominant Imperial ideological doctrine ...
The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia (1990) Lincoln, W. Bruce. Nikolai Miliutin, an enlightened Russian bureaucrat (1977) Miller, Forrest A. Dmitrii Miliutin and the Reform Era in Russia (1968) Moss, Walter G. A history of Russia: volume I to 1917 ( 1997), pp 413–35.
The Russian autocracy gave Polish artisans and gentry reason to rebel in 1863 by assailing the national core values of language, religion, and culture. [125] The resulting January Uprising was a massive Polish revolt, which also was crushed. France, Britain and Austria tried to intervene in the crisis but were unable.
With the failure of the Decembrists, Russia's autocracy would continue for almost a century, although serfdom would be officially abolished in 1861 and the parliaments in Russia and Finland would be established in 1905. Finland had a parliament since Alexander I, but the number of electors was limited.
The Tsardom of Russia, [a] also known as the Tsardom of Moscow, [b] ... By the 16th century, the Russian ruler had emerged as a powerful, autocratic figure, a Tsar.
Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by ... The Russian Revolution led to the replacement of the autocratic Russian Empire with the ...
Russia's industrial regions included Moscow, the central regions of European Russia, Saint Petersburg, the Baltic cities, Russian Poland, some areas along the lower Don and Dnepr rivers, and the southern Ural Mountains. By 1890 Russia had about 32,000 kilometers of railroads and 1.4 million factory workers, most of whom worked in the textile ...