Thus, “Troops were needed on 13,507 occasions in January 190
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Thus, “Troops were needed on 13,507 occasions in January 1909, and 114,108 occasions that [whole] year. By 1913, there were 100,000 arrests for ‘attacks on State power.’ ”140 Needless to say, all this strained a reluctant army, which was also busy crushing the resentful ethnic minorities—Poles, Finns, Georgians, Latvians, Estonians, Armenians—who were seeking to preserve the grudging concessions over “Russification” which they had obtained during the regime’s weakness in 1905–1906.141 Any further military defeat would once again see such groups striving to escape Muscovy’s domination.
chapter: The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914