HISTORY 2Q03 Lecture 1: History 2Q03 All lectures
13 Mar 2018
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Geography plays a huge role in foreign policy, expansion, attempts to modernize, industrialize in russia"s history: the same problems arise again and again, russia has access to the northern seas (cid:1680) ice is always a problem. Farming is very difficult in many areas of russia: put tons of pressure on ukraine (cid:1680) (cid:1688)bread basket of russia(cid:1689), ukraine identifies itself as the origins of russia (cid:1680) presenting your own historical past. Russia has natural resources (cid:1680) but those resources are located in difficult places: massive issues of transportation that is linked to this geography. The russia peter had to rule: we can only understand him if we understand the empire he comes to be the leader of, peter is intent on changing the empire he rules. He moves the capital from moscow to st. petersburg: break with moscow and muscovite past. The old custom remains underneath that new reform.
