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Catherine's reform project enters an autocracy with no settled habit of debating law.
Catherine the Great's push to recast Russia's legal order meets a political culture with little muscle memory for collective debate. The episode shows why the Nakaz left serfdom untouched, then follows the Legislative Commission as members receive the document, hear Alexander…
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You can watch Catherine press her reform project into the Legislative Commission, only for old Russian habits to slow the promise before Poland and the Ottoman world take over the horizon.
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