HIST 2905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peter The Great, Catherine The Great, Serfdom
9 Jan 2018
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Catherine was german, became ruler by the assassination of her husband. She has a traditional view of power. She had a view of absolute power. At the end of her reign, she was the most remembered ruler of the enlightenment. She was ambitious to establish herself as an enlightened monarch. She relied on serfdom so it was never abolished. There was only one year when the country was not at war during peter the great"s rule. The table of ranks, an of cial hierarchy (military service, People had to work their way up. Military service was the highest of the 3 rankings. Russia had almost no history of a european power. There was a minor amount of trade. At the end of the century it became a strong european power. It began with the rule of peter the great. Russia was reluctant to adopt these new changes. He was at odds with his nobility.
