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Czar Alexander III

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Noun1.Czar Alexander IIICzar Alexander III - son of Alexander II who was czar of Russia (1845-1894)
Alexander III
Russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917


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The ferocious policies it advocated were adopted in full by Czar Alexander III and his influential adviser, the Procurator of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, who has been called, not without reason, the most influential reactionary in Russian history.
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Some pro-government commentators even liken Putin to Russia's autocratic Czar Alexander III, who consolidated control over Central Asia and began industrialization at home.
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Whether it points to Nazi brutality, Soviet oppression, or, given the advance of the decay, the anti-Catholic policies of Czar Alexander III, it still points accusingly at an oppressor.
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