Unformatted text preview: e) Assessment/criticism ⇒ doesn’t do anything for serfs, more peasants have been enserfed, she doesn’t do anything to change the fundamental systems of Russia, books censored, jailed people that wrote or talked bad about her, made a statue as a tribute to Peter the Great, criticize for her hypocrisy after the French revolution, doesn’t do much for women f) Catherine’s son Paul ⇒ he hates Catherine, she wasn’t much of a mother to Paul, she decided who he would marry, Catherine took Paul’s two eldest sons and groomed them, he reverses all of Catherine’s reforms when he comes to power, makes a law that a female can’t reign again, Paul doesn’t rule long one of his eldest sons leads a successful coup....
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- Fall '08
- VILLARREAL
- History, eldest sons, high class women
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