Edward Crankshaw - There was no hand center to the reign. There was no discernible pattern. In the end everything turned sour.
John Westwood - with the exception of Khrushchev, no other Russian ruler did so much to reduce the suffering of the Russian People.
Harry Hearder - Its reign which started in high hope ended in futile tragedy.
Boris Chicherin - Alexander set out to remodel completely the enormous stage which had been entrusted to his care.
Werner Mose - Alexander proved himself a disappointing liberal and inefficient autocrat
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1863 - cruelest forms of punishment in the army were abolished, changes in the court procedure
1868 - length of military reduced from 16 to 10 years and 5 in reserves
01.01.1874 - The Conscription Act (reduced to 6 years + 9 in reserves, education shortened service
11.1864 - new legal code: defense lawyer, call witnesses, open to public
1865 - new sets of rules for writers and editors: daily newspapers & book over 160 pages didn’t have to be submitted for censorship
1863 - University Statue, introduced by Golovnin: greater autonomy, allowing women
1864 - The Secondary Education Statue
1865 - The Elementary Education Statue
1864 - local government changes, commission set in 1860, put into effect, zemstva,
1862 - first comprehensie budget
1868 - church reforms, allow more capable priests to rise through the Church hierarchy
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