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Alexander had revived the League of Three Emperors to maintain peace in Europe. -
¨We proclaim this to all our faithful subjects – God in His unfathomable judgement has deemed it proper to culminate the glorious reign of our beloved father with a martyr’s death and to lay the holy duty of autocratic rule on us.¨ After this he assassinated 10,000 citizens who he deemed a threat. -
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Alexander III wanted to create a nation with one leader, religion, language, and nationality. Such a political ideal is demonstrated in his domestic policies:
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The Gold standard proved an incentive for a substantial influx of foreign capital into Russian industry. In these years, too, the industrial working class grew rapidly. -
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He continued to participate in World war I which made him unpopular.
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During the eight months of the Provisional Government Kerensky held three important portfolios: justice, war and the prime minister-ship. In late October 1917 Kerensky was toppled from power and forced to flee Russia. -
He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern (Communist International) and the posthumous source of “Leninism,” the doctrine codified and conjoined with Karl Marx’s works by Lenin’s successors to form Marxism-Leninism, which became the Communist worldview.
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Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party.