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Traditions and Encounters Book Cover
Traditions and Encounters, 2/e
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN EUROPE AND ASIA

Essay Quiz



1

How did Peter I respond to the realization that Russia was far behind Europe in science and technology? Compare his reaction to that of the Ottoman empire at roughly the same time. What could the Russian government have done in the eighteenth century to remain competitive with the West? Did this happen?
2

What did "enlightenment" mean to Catherine II? In what ways could she be considered an enlightened monarch? In what ways was she not?
3

Compare the Russian intelligentsia at the time of Catherine with the philosophes of the French Enlightenment. In what ways were their circumstances similar, and in what ways were they different? (What would Catherine have done with Voltaire?)








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