What caused Catherine the Great's abandonment of enlightenment ideals?
A peasant uprising called Pugachev's rebellion tried to depose her.
She never truly believed in them and only claimed to to gain popularity.
Her husband's death at the hands of peasant rebels.
Voltaire stopped sending her letters.

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She used the ideals of the Enlightenment in order to increase the power and security of Russia. Catherine improved the Russian economy through free trade, turned the country's bureaucracy into a more efficient one, and provided the people with social services such as education and health care.

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Catherine's reign began during the Enlightenment in Western Europe, she was in many ways a child of the Enlightenment (15). She was a staunch advocate of the Enlightenment values of truth, justice and the desire for a modern and efficient government.

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