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The rise of the Germans and British paralleled – and intensified – the concern,bordering on paranoia, of Russia’s rulers, and their sense of vulnerability to thewest. After the death of the reactionary Nicholas I in 1855, Alexander II undertookextensive modernizing reforms, including the liberation of the country’s serfs. Butthese measures were flawed and failed to satisfy a large proportion of his subjects,fueling a turn to terrorism and Alexander’s assassination in 1881. The HabsburgEmpire felt roughly similar vulnerabilities; its internal reforms and efforts at consolidationresulted in the creation of the more centralized and modernized DualMonarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867. However, its leaders continued to sufferfrom a sense of economic backwardness and a related growing threat from thenations to their west.
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