The last and most tenacious of the…
1852 CE to 1863 CE
Following Russia's disastrous defeat in the Crimean War, the government of Tsar Alexander II had enacted a series of liberal reforms, including liberation of the serfs throughout the empire.
High-handed imposition of land reforms in Poland has aroused hostility among the landed nobles and a group of young radical intellectuals influenced by Karl Marx and the Russian liberal Alexander Herzen.
Repeating the pattern of 1830-31, the open revolt of the January Insurrection by Congress Poland fails to win foreign backing.
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