so in this video we're going to move on to Alexander the third and his policies in ass video alexander ii was assassinated after seven attempts so we're gonna have a look at what Alexander the third did in power when he was was when he was are so go start by looking at his saw of returned to autocracy so on the 27th of May he was crowned Tsar of Russia so this is not long after so not long after his dead father's death not long after Alexander the second death okay and he was encouraged to reassert
the sort of principle of autocracy and abandon Alexander's reforms so if we remember from the couple of videos ago Alexander's reforms seemed to spark a lot of opposition so Alexander's reforms sparked a lot of opposition and Alexander the third didn't want to bring about this the kind of opposition that alexander ii saw him his reign equals opposition okay so Alexander in his in his infinite wisdom arrested a hundred and fifty members of the people's will remember the people's will being one of the groups that was out to assassinate Alexander the second and hanged those who
were directly responsible for his father's assassination well his father's assassination the actual person who killed him also committed committed suicide in the attempt so the person that actually killed Alexander the second the person who killed him also died in the blast so in the blast if you remember a bomb was used to try and assassinate the Czar and it didn't work and then an assassin just pulled out a grenade and blew himself up in the process but that did work and kill him so Alexander used Alexander the third began to use spies more often in
1885 he closed down the court of sessions so the close call sessions were reintroduced as I say he introduced land captains to a point pointer from the nobility he replaced local magistrates and add power to override the zephyr the the local government authority that was introduced under alexander ii so local government local government okay so the peasant zephyr vote was reduced so nobility had more control so this gave the nobility more control gave nobles more control okay and liberal members of the judiciary were removed from office so in the short space of just 10 years
he went from Russia went from a very liberal progressive new reformist kind of state to a lot more of a reversal back to autocracy under Alexander at the third and there was also an increase in what's known as Rousseff occation so in a previous video we talked about the ID we talked about the idea of a westernization which is aligning yourself more with Western values while Russification is aligning yourself more with Russian values so it's all the opposite so it's or when from here more to rusev occasion so Alexander the third adopted Konstantin paav Donna
Steves Creed which was known as autocracy orthodoxy and nationality and it reintroduce the ideas of ratification okay oopsy-daisy so these ideas were things like the Russian language was to be enforced Russia was Russian was now the official first language okay public office was denied to those who couldn't speak Russian so this is all just to do with language in the first in the first few okay adherence to ether Eastern Orthodox was encouraged so we see around 37,000 Lutheran's converted to orthodoxy in the Baltic regions so in regions that were less Orthodox we see more of
a convergence - Ethan off Eastern Orthodox Catholic monasteries were closed down so more to align with Eastern Orthodox and there was also military suppression to those who's who opposed these ideas really a very we can really split the policies of crucification into two ideas so we can talk about rusev occasion being language so language policies I Russia was made the primary language and those who couldn't speak that language couldn't ever hold public office and also religion okay and all of this was enforced by and enforced by military forced by the military okay so we have
language over here it was the Russian was the first official language and public office was designed to anyone who couldn't speak Russian and then religion over here you had to be Eastern Orthodox it was strongly encouraged and Catholic monasteries were closed down there was also about of anti-semitism in this time okay so the Rousseff occation policies hit the Jews harder than anybody else in the Russian Empire there were around 5 million Jews at this point and between 1881 and 1884 and and a number of anti-jewish pogroms broke out okay so so riots anti-jewish riots effectively
so anty anty jewish riots and what made this worse was the authorities did very little to stop these riots so that's very important these riots weren't encouraged by the state but they weren't suppressed by the state either Jews were raped murdered and Jewish properties in several cities were destroyed so this is a I mean we talk about the sort of problems that Jews face in Nazi Germany before the Second World War and we can still see the anti-semitism that also existed in Europe as early as 1881 and definitely earlier than that and we see Jewish
pogroms in Russia and this period of time there are also a number of them just after the dawn of the new millennium so anti-semitism isn't something that's new it's something that's pretty horrible and it's something that hasn't has always been here in in European history there were also these were the non state things that were done so the state didn't really have any thing to do with this however the state did have influence in the laws that were enacted to restrict the rights and movements of Jews these were passed by Alexander so this was really
a time of anti-semitism for Russia so time of anti-semitism which is really sad effectively okay so this gives you an idea of really where Alexander the third was going when he came into power and brought back these this return to autocracy and ratification policies and worst of all the anti-semitic laws that were passed in his reign
