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Achievements

pre-conditions

Ideology, goals

- Wanted same goals and interests as Peter

  the Great hoped to ahchieve

- Wanted to dethrone her husband so that

  she could hold the domination

- Goal: A selective westernize

- Flirted with the ideas of the French

  enlightenment

- Patronized the arts

- Advocate of a strong tsarist hand and a

  centralizer

 

- Serfdom = main labor system

- Power: Landlords > serf labor

- Greater freedom of women     

        ex)attend public cultural events

- New manufacturing (using serf labor not

  paid wages)

- Economy: stabilized by the hard labor of the

  serfs & increasing tax on the peasants

- Economic efforts: building a metallurgical

  and mining industries

- Russian elite: cut off from its traditions to

  enhance state power

- Peter the 3rd took power but his wife would

  have him killed off

- Support military strength → Economic

  development

 

- Instead of her Husband(mentally unstabled), dethroned and kept her son always from power

- Reform commissions; new law codes, Western style measures, reduction of severe

punishments

- Nobles got higher authority over their serfs in a trade

(Purpose: serve a central government)

- Increased the harshness of punishments nobles could decree for their serfs

- Resumed campaigns against the Ottoman Empire winning new territories

- Encouraged leading nobles to tour the West and sent their children for the education

- French Revolution’s “seditious” writings of liberals and democrats (censored by Catherine)

- Russian-Ottoman contest became central diplomatic issue

- Catherine’s holdings in Siberia and encouraged more exploration

- Pressed Russia’s interest in Europe and played power politics with Prussia and Antarctica

- Increased Russian interference in Polish affairs

- Partition of Poland = agreements with Austria and Prussia and eliminated Poland as an

independent state

- Defended powers of central monarch

: make vigorous peasant uprising calm down by Emelian Pugachev (Pugachev Rebellion)

- Imported several French philosophers for visits and patronized the arts and sciences

- Catherine increased harshness of punishments nobles could decree for serfs

- St. Petersburg – patronized western style art and architecture

 

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