Nicholas I, 1825–55

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2026
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Abstract
This chapter examines Nicholas I's personality, militarism, and doctrine of Official Nationality, which united Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality to justify paternal authoritarian rule across the Russian Empire. It analyses Nicholas's bureaucratic system, including ad hoc committees, His Majesty's Own Chancery, censorship, and the Third Department, which expanded surveillance, centralized authority, and suppressed dissent. The chapter explains the regime's limited reforms by addressing codification of law, state peasant administration, and continued reluctance to abolish serfdom despite mounting social and political tensions. It traces Russia's foreign interventions, the suppression of nationalist movements, reactionary policies after 1848, conservative alliances, and Nicholas's defence of legitimism during the European revolutions of 1830 and 1848. Finally, the chapter evaluates the reactionary climate, the Crimean War, and Russia's defeat, which exposed the failures of Nicholas's autocracy and intensified demands for reform.
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Authors Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0024
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0024
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