HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture 2: Russia in 19th C.
1 Nov 2017
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Over the course of the 17th century, in eastern europe and central asia, two huge autocratic empires had evolved. By the 18th century their boundaries rubbed up against one another causing significant friction between them. Over the course of the 18th century and into the 19th, however, these empires were challenged by the same forces transforming western. In both cases, attempts to reform these empires were tried, and in both cases, internal resistance to those reforms led to the reforms being either minimized or reversed. As a consequence, although one russia continued to expand, and the other the. Ottomans contracted and declined, both empires at the turn of the 20th century had resisted full-on constitutional nationalism and experience only limited industrialization. And although the regimes tried to suppress the application of moderate constitutionalism for so long, other enlightenment- inspired ideas would be mobilized by residents of both empires to bring about change.
