Tsarist Russia

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Tsarist Russia

• Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible
• Liberation from Mongols
• Aspirations of an empire successor to Byzantine
  Empire
• Michael I The Dynasty of the Romanovs
• Peter the Great
• Russian Empire
• The establishment of St. Petersburg and the
  search for a port
• Westernization of the society

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Russia (878-912)
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Russia (972)
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Tsarist Russia (2)

• Catherine the Great
• Russia catches up with the West
• Active role in European Politics
• Alexander I and Nicholas I Autocracy,
  orthodoxy, and Nationalism
• Congress of Vienna
• Wars against the Ottoman Empire
• Crimean War in 1853

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Russia (1300-1796)
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Tsarist Russia (3)

• Alexander II and Alexander III
• End of serfdom and emancipation of peasants
• Slavophiles vs. Westernizers
• Go east Young men!
• Expansion to Central Asia
• Reinsurance Treaty
• Railroads to Vladivostok
• Nicolas II the End
• Russo-Japanese War
• 1905 First revolution
• WWI

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External and Internal factors determining Russian
foreign policy under the Tsars

• Internal factors
• Ideas Expansionism and Special messianic role
  among Orthodox populations
• Economic system serfdoms
• Political system authoritarian system (Tsars)
• Geography and culture
• External factors
• Surrounding major powers (Poland, Lithuania,
  Sweden, Mongols, Germans, and Japanese, the
  Ottoman empire in South, France)
• Industrialization and formation of nation-states
  in the West
• 2 policies rapprochement and catching- up with
  the West or isolation and expansion eastward.
• 2 cultures culture of spread and culture of
  settlement