How did the Russian nobility benefit from the reign of Catherine the Great? Explain.

control over nobility

That is mainly because she focused on herself. She encouraged education for the wealthy as well as the middle class citizens. She gave the right of serfdom to the nobles in which they had complete control over serfs, therefore the last piece of freedom they had was lost.

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"the attempts of the proletariat to rise above this abasement"

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