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The main one was Government Policy. The Tsarist regime was seen as weak and indecisive and it was a very repressive government. Basically, anything that the Tsar said was done with no questions asked. He did not have to listen to anyone as he could decide everything himself and just order that it would be done.
He believed that autocracy was the only possible government for imperial Russia. As Pobedonostsev was such a big influence on Nicholas and behind many notions, one could argue that his impact prolonged social and political development in Russia leading to the revolution in 1905.
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