Th ecrimean war and Alexander I's reforms
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- Created on: 26-02-20 22:59
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- Alexander ll's reforms and the Crimean war
- The war revealed weaknesses in Nicholas I's rule - serfdom did not fit with modern warfare
- the army was recruited from serfs who were untrained and uncommitted
- soldiers poorly supplied, armour and weapons inadequate - reflection of slow industrialised economy
- before the Crimean war
- pressure to abolish serfdom, immoral form of slavery
- growing peasant unrest
- demands to work on railway links
- population growth put a pressure on farming that was geared to provide subsistence not surplus
- famines became more frequent
- Reforms were slow to come out, some nobles were only convinced of the need for far-reaching reforms when they witnessed the success of the 'modern' Prussian army in 1866
- The war revealed weaknesses in Nicholas I's rule - serfdom did not fit with modern warfare
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