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It’s very hard to succinctly articulate the arrogance of the noble class particularly close to the revolution. The closest thing I can get is that Queen Victoria wrote her granddaughter (the Tsarina) and she responded like the people didn’t matter

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The arrogance may have been warranted if the nobles were truly to smartest people but they weren't! By WW1, most of the ranking officers were just bourgeois nobles who didn't earn their titles They just followed the bureaucratic path set by the table of ranks and boom your were a general

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The nobles refused to adapt to capitalism as well creating rifts between nobles with "old power" and the new merchant close with monetary power The Cherry Orchard by Chekov is a great example of this theme

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I didn't realize the emancipation of the serfs was partially a way for nobles to hand off debt to poor peasants With most nobles loaded up on debt, they offered emancipation and land grants but required the peasants to take on the debts that the nobles incurred. Thereby reducing their burden and exchanging serfdom for indentured servitude

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The Go to the People movement ethos really captured 2 groups, the Slavophilia of people like Dostoevsky and the revolutionaries / Marxists / socialists looking for a better future

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It's easy to see especially why young women were so keen to join revolutionary circles based on the peasant cultural tradition. Intensely patriarchal, they had some intense sayings such as: "The more you beat the old woman, the tastier the soup will be" "A wife is nice twice: when she's brought into the house as a bride and when she's carried out of it to her grave"

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But starting in 1905, more violence was taking place in the country side against the nobles / gentry. Slaughtering families, taking land, killing animals, etc. Large mobs of disenchanted men looking to cause trouble

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There is a certain level of anarchy that is hard to relate to today. When the October Revolution occurred, bringing the Bolsheviks to power, no one really cared. Everyone went on with their days outside of central St. Petersberg The closest thing I can think of is this video of people cycling during the war in Ukraine https://x.com/adamcurtisbroll/status/1805633291900404104

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Effectively, a coup was launched and no one cared?? The amount of apathy towards the provisional government would have to be astronomical for something like that to happen In America today, the closest thing we may have is January 6th. But everyone cared about that, not a soul just "kept moving forward"

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Going from de facto anarchy to de jure anarchy is not much of a change. Getting to that same end state but now from our stable Western starting point would involve a level of chaos that surpasses the imagination

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