06-16 19:13 - 'It's...kind of hard to say. / Nicholas II was....really conservative, even for a Russian autocrat. He did have a very reform minded PM in the form of Pytor Stolypin though. Stolypin eventually got assassinated by...' by /u/Townsend_Harris removed from /r/HistoryPorn within 158-168min
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It's...kind of hard to say.
Nicholas II was....really conservative, even for a Russian autocrat. He did have a very reform minded PM in the form of Pytor Stolypin though. Stolypin eventually got assassinated by anarchists, but it's been suggested that the very conservative Nicholas II (and the faction of very conservative nobles near him) weren't exactly upset by that...
What I'm saying is that even though the system did isolate the emperor from the suffering of the common people, there were people in government who were aware, who were trying to change that and who were working against the personal opinions of the autocrat and a large part of the nobility.
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Author: u/Townsend_Harris
Posted Jun 16, 2017, 7:13 PM UTC
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