HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Russian Culture, Compulsory Education, Streltsy
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Lecture 3: peter the great, part 2: a well-ordered european state. Peter"s primary interest was military and navy affairs > any of his other reforms could be seen as being linked with his primary interest. It first occurred to peter to just increase taxes on the population. You can only efficiently collect taxes if you have an efficient government bureaucracy > requires a reform of bureaucracy. He hated dynastic politics (the dynastic familial system) > he saw it hindering efficiency within the government and ruined things from getting done > caused instability within russia. The best way that peter thought to get rid of the dynastic system and expand his military was to introduce westernizing reforms (since he grew up in the german suburbs) The third major reason for all of his reforms was that europe is better, according to. Peter > he believed the answer to all social questions was to introduce european reforms.
