Russian Empire

The Russian, German and Austrian-Hungarian empires all fell during or shortly after the First World War. Whilst the revolutions can be seen to have been hastened by the events of the war, structural problems were already emerging in these empires that would have caused the collapse, the war acted to further expose these pre-existing problems. The war had the greatest impact on the German empire and its ensuing revolution, having been the most modernised of these empires it had not had such deep-rooted

Russia’s Government and Politics: From the Russian Empire to the Russian Revolution In the late 17th century, during the period of the Roman Empire, Peter the Great along with his brother Ivan V co-ruled Russia until his brother’s death in 1696. When he took power of all of Russia, he began harsh reforms and introduced a new autocratic government, in order, to reestablish Russia to a great nation, but many of Russia’s citizens were repressed during this time. He reorganized the military, strengthened

How did the czar Peter the Great changed the perception of the what the western countries thought about Russia's Empire The reforms he brought into Russia's foreign and domestic policies & the religious schism between the Orthodox Russia and the Western religions Was Russia's autocratic monarchy a ponderosity against its success? If it wasn't for its national vice, Russia could have been today the largest Islamic country in the world, along with it, the old USSR satellite states would've expanded

The first russians were Scandinavians and they were called Vargarians. Led by Rurik a great warrior they took control of Novgorod and began there, expanding over the years. This was around 860’s. Fast forward to year 989 the Rurik Dynasty was now under Yaroslav marking the peak of the Kievan Rus, who separated the land to his children and hoped that it would flourish and they would cooperate. They did not and split into regional power centers. The struggling dynasty was invaded by the mongols in

several empires quickly emerging, such as the Spanish, Russian, Qing China, Ottoman and Mughal empires. The growth of empires were reliant on the use of gunpowder that had originated from China. The motive for growth the desire for prosperity that resulted in a multiethnic and multicultural empire in newly conquered places. Specifically for the Spanish and Russian empires, both had strong expansion and cultural impacts in their regions. One similarity between the Spanish and Russian empires was their

England and Russia were territories of the Roman Empire but when it collapsed, they both became nations with the same religion. However, they established their own common law. The establishment of centralized monarchies in the early nations of England and Russia are similar and different in many ways. How were early English and early Russian nations similar? When the Roman Empire fell, they no longer had someone to protect them from invaders. Thus resulting in Germanic tribes taking advantage and

The 2007 Russian film Mongol begins with a weary, imprisoned Temudjin (also known as Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land mass in all of history) narrating his life from inside a prison cell. He flashes back to his childhood, where the viewer sees a young Temudjin stop at a tribe’s resting site while he, his father, and his father’s friends are journeying to the Merkits. The Merkits are a rival tribe that Temujin 's father stole Temujin’s mother from years prior

Spanish and Russian Empires were both similar and different in their processes of empire building, politically, socially, and economically during the time period of 1450-1800. Some similarities between the Spanish and Russian empires was that they both had a very similar way of building their empires.. Some differences the Spanish and Russian empires had was that they both had different treatment of natives and they conquered lands under different circumstances. The Spanish and Russian built their

effect on the history of the world cannot be overstated. Alexander’s empire had an effect on people from the Balkans to Egypt, and from Babylon to India. His empire resolved the long standing conflict between the Persians and Greeks, established multiple cities across the Middle East and central Asia, had an influence on a future Indian emperor, and some of the remnants of his empire lasted until the time of the Roman Empire. The empire of Alexander not only had a prominent place in history, but also

The Roman Empire reached a pinnacle of civilization and prestige that many nation builders throughout the ages have attempted to emulate. The legal traditions of the Byzantine and Russian empires reveal the common thread of upholding certain values of the old Roman culture. On examining Justinian’s Law Code in the sixth century, the Byzantine Anatolian Farmer’s Law in the eighth, and King Yaroslav’s proto-Russian Pravda Rus ‘skaya in the eleventh, one finds continuity in the codes’ notion justice