
W.E. Mosse
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LOCATION: Tetbury, (Glos.) GL8 8DD, United Kingdom
Emeritus Professor of European History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. Author of Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia and others.
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Alexander II was the emperor of Russia (1855–81). His liberal education and distress at the outcome of the Crimean War, which had demonstrated Russia’s backwardness, inspired him toward a great program of domestic reforms, the most important being the emancipation (1861) of the serfs. A period of…
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