Question by : How did public opinion in Russia bring modernisation or economic change?
During ANY time between Alexander II to Khrushchev…
I only have two
During Russo-Japanese War
1917 WW1- Strikes- Nicholas Abdication
But I don’t know how to explain it..I have attempted it many times but my teacher keeps saying its rubbish
Any help/advice?
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Answer by Butcher Bird
Catherine the Great- (born May 2, 1729, Stettin, Prussia — died Nov. 17, 1796, Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg, Russia) German-born empress of Russia (1762 – 96).
By 1764 Catherine felt sufficiently secure to begin work on reform. In her thinking about the problems of reform, she belonged to the group of 18th-century rulers known as “enlightened despots.” Influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, these monarchs believed that a wise and benevolent ruler, acting according to the dictates of reason, could ensure the well-being of his or her subjects. Dealing with other monarchs, being German to begin with she was embarrassed her county was so vast and with so many resources, but so far behind other European countries so she set out to change that.
It was in the spirit of the Enlightenment that Catherine undertook her first major reform, that of Russia’s legal system, which was based on the antiquated, inequitable, and inefficient Code of Laws, dating from 1649. For more than 2 years, inspired by the writings of Montesquieu and the Italian jurist Beccaria, she worked on the composition of the “Instruction,” a document to guide those to whom she would entrust the work of reforming the legal system. This work was widely distributed in Europe and caused a sensation because it called for a legal system far in advance of the times. It proposed a system providing equal protection under law for all persons and emphasized prevention of criminal acts rather than harsh punishment for them.
In June 1767 the Empress created the Legislative Commission to revise the old laws in accordance with the “Instruction.” For the time and place, the Commission was a remarkable body, consisting of delegates from almost all levels of society except the lowest, the serfs. Like many others, Catherine had great hopes about what the Commission might accomplish, but unfortunately, the delegates devoted most of their time to the exposition of their own grievances, rather than to their assigned task. Consequently, though their meetings continued for more than a year, they made no progress, and Catherine suspended the meetings at the end of 1768. The fact that she never reconvened the Commission has been interpreted by some historians as an indication that she had lost faith in the delegates; others feel, however, that she was more interested in having the reputation of being an “enlightened” ruler than in actually being one.
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