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Decembrists — Russia’s Aristocratic Revolutionaries
 
Educated in the ideas of the Enlightenment
Drew their inspiration from the political systems of Western Europe
Many of them were aristocratic officers in elite guards regiments who had served in Western Europe during the Napoleonic wars
Their European experience made them acutely aware of the backwardness of Russia, based on autocracy and serfdom
They were disillusioned and frustrated with Alexander I, who had lost his early interest in domestic reform
 
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