WOH-1030 Lecture 11: War and Revolution in Russia 09-30
Document Summary
Russia was the biggest country in the 19th century it had a very large coastline, but most of it was frozen; they wanted to establish more water ports. They want to have access to the sea but to do that they have to nd new warm-water ports or they will have to work out a deal/conquer the. Ideological motive for getting sea ports russia was largely orthodox. Christian (di erent religion from most of europe) and they had to look out for all of the orthodox christians everywhere. Nationalist motive for establishing more water ports the people living in the. Baltic regions were predominately slavic - russia wanted to be the leader of the slavic people. In the late 19th century, russia would start to industrialize pretty rapidly. They were looking to what europeans had done during industrialization - the russians would build very large factories very quickly.
