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'''REFORMS'''

During the last twenty years of his reign (1861-1881) the Russian Empire underwent extensive reforms militarily, judicially, economically, and politically.  His military reforms included reducing conscription from twenty five years to five years, banning brutalization of conscripts by non commissioned officers, increasing pay, and attempting to better living conditions in the barracks of the Imperial Army and Imperial Fleet.  His judicial reforms included reducing the number of court systems from twenty two to five (military, Tax, Ecclessastical, Commerce, Criminal) and drafting a law code that was considered by 1871 to be one of the most progressive in all of Europe.  In his political reforms he eased censorship and Tsarist Russia saw an unprecedented era of freedom of speech which was unfortunately curtailed in the late 1870s after several attempts on his life.   

During the last twenty years of his reign (1861-1881) the Russian Empire underwent extensive reforms militarily, judicially, economically, and politically.  His military reforms included reducing conscription from twenty five years to five years, banning brutalization of conscripts by non commissioned officers, increasing pay, and attempting to better living conditions in the barracks of the Imperial Army and Imperial Fleet.  His judicial reforms included reducing the number of court systems from twenty two to five (military, Tax, Ecclesiastical, Commerce, Criminal) and drafting a law code that was considered by 1871 to be one of the most progressive in all of Europe.  In his political reforms he eased censorship and Tsarist Russia saw an unprecedented era of freedom of speech which was unfortunately curtailed in the late 1870s after several attempts on his life.   

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