Russian Empire
Published on Nov 25, 2015
Hannan Sylla 5th
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1. Evaluate Catherines reactions to maintaining the old order and trying to introduce enlightened concepts.
Catherine, like Peter, tried to refine and increase the effectiveness of the Tsaritsyn bureaucracy by appointing with a modern and westernized education. She organized the Russian empire into fifty administrative provinces, each supervised by a governor-general. She made sure the nobles were happy so she could be free to rule on her own, however, she owed her rule to their support.
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2. Explain Russia’s relationship with the rest of Europe during this transition period. Be sure to specifically address Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and the Balkans.
Russia essentially absorbed most of the countries north, west, and south of the Russian empire, in order to assert Russian dominance in Europe. At the end of the Ivan's IV reign of terror in 1569, the Poland-Lithuanian republic became far to unstable and was susceptible to conquer by the Russians. However Poland and Russia were different in many aspects, such as religiously, as Poland and Lithuania were Roman Catholic and Russia was Russian Orthodox. The Ukraine was swallowed by Russia after a series of civil disputes. The Balkans in the south were also taken over by Russia.
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3. Describe Russian society.
Russia was a heavily populated empire, however, that population was sparsely spread. Because there was little industrialization, Russian economy was extremely dependent on well crafted trading networks, and agriculture dominated Russian society. Because of this, there was a lot of rural land throughout the Russian empire. Serfs were used in the cultivating of this land, however it was made a point that serfs were indeed not slaves. However, by 1649 serfs were sold as if they were private property,
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4. Explain the growth of Russian trade and industry. Be sure to include it’s effects.
Interactions with other European and Asian countries and traders fundamentally boosted the trade that went on in Russia. So much so that a single city -port Archangel- was the trading center of the Russian Empire and all of Western Europe and was used for trading textiles and paper and silver. However this great expansion also caused tension between other European and Asian traders. Peter the greats policy of modernization and western reform created many different kind s of factories, which created metal works, such as iron products, armaments, textiles, etc. this rapid urbanization resulted in an equally rapid stunt in population in the Russian Empire.
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5. Evaluate how religious tensions helped develop the Russian Orthodox Church and its relationship with the Tsars.
A schism between the church and state of Russia displace the patriarchy of the Russian church: essentially men have most if not all the power, and the state would supervise and monitor any and all church activities.
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The conflicts in Crimea that happened recently relate to the past conflicts because Russia tries to absorb Crimea like it did in the past.
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