Th ecrimean war and Alexander I's reforms

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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

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