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(07-26-2019 07:53 PM)Steve Wrote:  Yeah, but if memory serves me correct, Czar Alexander II was assassinated and further reforms were quashed by his successors - Alexander III and Nicholas II who curtailed freedoms, instituted progroms against the Jews, etc. Their repression continued until the people were so fed up with them that the Romanovs were overthrown in a revolution...which ushered in an even more oppressive regime.

Quite correct, and that's why I put in that phrase about having "problems readjusting for years afterwards." Change never comes easily. And you just fell into the pattern of six degrees of separation by mentioning Russian assassination and the quashing of reforms (as in Lincoln, Radicals, Johnson, and Reconstruction).