Military Reforms
- Crimean war made Tsar Alexander II realize that their military was weak and no longer a great military power; advisers suggested that Russia could no longer be run as serf-based economy could no longer compete with industrialized countries like Britain and France.
- Universal military training (1874)
- Cancelled recruitment to armed services for three years (1825)
- Appointed 6 military governor-general's
- Dmitri Milyutin suggested suggested that conscripts should spend less time on active service. He favored short period act for military training and then a long time in reserved.
- Inactive soldiers couldn’t be sent back to communes as trained soldiers because it was dangerous due to the fear that they would set up peasant uprising against the government
- Serfs were freed after military service if they survived
- 1856 Treaty of Paris
- DId not give traditional proclamation of freedom for those who fought in the war.