jamesd23x Retweeted Carl Minzner
From Alexander the Liberator to the Holdomor, Russia moved ever leftwards till Stalin crushed the party in the show trials. The 1880s were not a reverse, just an unsuccessful attempt to slow the ever leftwards trend. China, on the other hand has successfully reversed.https://twitter.com/CarlMinzner/status/980172112357969921 …
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(14) As a result, the 1880s/1890s saw the tsarist regime steadily reverse many earlier reforms – tightening censorship, jailing opponents, eviscerating local councils, & building a tight police state ("social stability w/Russian characteristics")- the period of “Counter-Reforms”
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