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Throughout the reign of the three Russian leaders mentioned in the title, the Russian countryside was backward often not being able provide enough export capital to remove this backwardness. In each reign on occasions the Russian countryside failed to feed the population. It was sometimes rebellious and desperately poor and miserable -although historians debate to what extent. Alexander the 2nd, like his father before him saw Russia's agricultural backwardness as a great if not the …

…most notably emancipation) that Alexander brought about- there could be no land bank or industrial centers that would in the future mechanise and industrialise the countryside for example. It is therefore very hard to impossible to separate their success as one's success was built upon by the other. More problems of the countryside had been solved under Alexander the third but how much of this was actually Alex the 2nds success, it impossible to say.