Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he'd had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of 'Judaizing.'
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.
Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.