Pestel’s The Russian Truth

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Write an overview of Pestel’s “The Russian Truth”

-Focusing on why he wanted to reduce the imperial diversity of population, territories, languages, and cultures in order to implement his republican scenario (parliament and equal rights).

-Also focus on the problem of how empire makes (in the minds of many reformers and revolutionaries, from emperors to Decembrists to leftist radicals) “democracy” impossible.

-This is the same problem we are tackling in our contemporary societies: how to reconcile the diversity of interests, cultures, religions, genders and so on and universalizing ideas about how “just”, “liberal” and “democratic” politics should be organized. Analyze carefully.