HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: House Of Romanov, Economic Stagnation, Serfdom
8 Apr 2016
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Lecture 2: the world in 1914: empires and nations. Although our 6 powerful territories are formally divided between empires and nations, all were, in fact, empires. Economically not as advanced as western nations. Massive standing armies but slow to modernize. Comprised of: austrian lands, kingdom of hungary, polish galicia, croatia, bosnia- 3rd largest in population (after russian and german) An emperor, a big army and decentralized administration. It is pressured by russia, and keen to take territory from the ottomans. Comprised of: russians, poles, germans, kazaks, ukrainians, finns, moldavians, baltic peoples, turkish muslims etc. etc. Lack of a large and effective middle class. Still has a large army and attempts at reform. Elections, parliament, centralization, industrial universal manhood suffrage. Massive multiethnic global empire including: indochina, algeria, congo, morocco, At home: democracy: rule of law, constitutional monarchy, universal manhood suffrage (for men only) World"s biggest empire in 1914, controls about 35% of earth"s population.
