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The Aspirations of Youth
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2008
Department: Russian Calendar
Page: 23 ( 3) pages
Summary: Tsar Alexander's speech to the Polish Sejm in 1818 set off a century of turmoil. Poland was given freedoms which Russia somehow was not deserving of. It helped spur the Decembrist revolt and all that followed.
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