Alexander III's internal reforms are all intended…

Alexander III's internal reforms are all intended to reverse the liberalization that had occurred under his father's reign.

He believes that the country will be saved from revolutionary agitation by remaining true to Russian Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality, the ideology introduced by his grandfather, emperor Nicholas I.

Alexander's political ideal is a nation composed a single nationality, language, and religion, as well as one form of administration.

He attempts to realize this by the institution of mandatory teaching of the Russian language throughout the empire, including to his German, Polish, and other non-Russian subjects, with the exception of the Finns; the patronization of Eastern Orthodoxy and the destruction of the remnants of German, Polish, and Swedish institutions in the respective provinces; and by the weakening of Judaism through persecution of the Jews.

The latter policy is implemented in the "May Laws" of 1882, which ban Jews from inhabiting rural areas and shtetls (even within the Pale of Settlement) and restrict the occupations in which they can engage.