POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Westernizer, Slavophilia, Industrial Revolution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL101Y1
• Professor: Michael Painter- Main

Document Summary

Radical transformation (adaptation or replacement of old institutions and patterns)) from traditional society through a transition to modernity. Includes all sectors of society: economy, polity, social structure and relations, culture, knowledge base, etc. Russian history may be viewed as a series of limited modernization projects. Peter the great (late 17th early 18th century) Agricultural reform: (key: emancipation of serfs 1861 ( mir, 1905+: (stolypin) break up communes, independent land- owning peasants, hereditary land ownership, consolidate land holdings, improved civil status. Industrialization 1890s (witte): railways, trade, foreign investment, etc) Political reforms 1905+: expand franchise, duma, parties, free expression. State defined interests and goals; initiative for reform comes from above; however, absence of comprehensive planning and establishment of priorities; ), which defines modernization in terms of economic development while holding political, social, and other sectors stable; Development defined in terms of extraction of resources (especially from peasantry) to provide for limited economic / military needs (defense & / or expansion);