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Backwardness: State & Repression

Westwood: "The intensification of repression [...] further dissent in the empire.

Backwardness: Russification I

Figes: "Trying to stamp out the native language was not an insulting and demoralising policy, it was ridiculous as well"

Backwardness: Russification II

Dziedzic: "Russification was a ‘dissolving agent’ then nationalism was, ironically it was supposed to reduce nationalism"