POLI SCI 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 1905 Russian Revolution
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Territories are added to previously semi-autonomous mt. Added agricultural areas to make it a more viable state. But you also add new ethnic groups and new ideologies etc. In syria, similarly, there are mutliple states (druze and alawite states). French decided to rule them all separately (potentially as a way to make it hard for them to unite against the french) but they still did. They have a parliament, but little-self government from french. In 1936, france integrates the national borders into a single syrian state. Egypt, iraq, syria: what are the legacies from colonial. In some places, the elites formed a sort of cozy relationship with the colonial power. But there is still resistance to colonial power. Internal tension about the state"s relationship to the colonial power. So now, current dynamics still often see things through the lens of colonialism, that dynamic, and its legacies still remain.