HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Protestantism, Winter Palace, Signify
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So many reforms can be seen as a way to get at big dynastic families to not control. Controlling the economy: to raise more taxes, need to control economy, to fund new military and bureaucracy meant taxes and tried to tax everything he could. So tax policy intentionally was haphazard, kept adding things that could be taxable. Rented rooms, ice blocks, sunflower seeds, and monastery bells and continued till no longer profitable and so he established something more regular. Knew he couldn"t just tax population to death, becomes unproductive and revolt threatens 1705 revolt in city of. Astrakhan over too many taxes: then peter turned to europe, 1718 radical, taking of the census. Census was used to determine number of people tax eligible and determine how much person should pay for upkeep of military. 6 year later 1724, new tax introduced and that was poll tax. Tax on every single person paid every year.
