Policies towards the ethnic minorities in the reigns of alexander 2 and alexander 3 to strengthen the empire?
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Alexander II and Alexander III had varying ideologies towards acceptance of ethnic minorities during their reigns.

Explanation:

Alexander II was a liberalist as he liberated serfs from many domestic estates and he also abolished capital punishment for them. On the other had Alexander III had a contrasting ideology wherein he believed in the principles of nationalism, Orthodoxy of culture and autocracy.  

Alexander III always questioned his father’s reforms and reversed it by following three main beliefs; they are suppressing the adversaries, cancellation of all reforms which were implemented in the reign of his father and russification which means to restore the name and fame of Russia and its identity internationally.  

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