Russia From 1850-71
Russia From 1850-71
Russia From 1850-71
Katyayani Singh,
Assistant Professor.
Unit III: Europe from 1850-1871
Russia
The decade between 1850 & 1870 were formative years in
the two largest dynastic empires of eastern Europe: Russia
and the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Neither yet felt the full
throb of the industrial revolution, though to both railways
had come, and more trade with western countries did
something to stimulate new social and political process.
Neither, in these years, lost much of its former territory or
gained any new lands; for after the Crimean war, neither
played a prominent part in general European affairs
Katyayani Singh, Assistant Professor
• There took place a profound change in the social life
combined with little corresponding change in the
political or administrative set up.
• The social change was effected not by economic
process like in the western world rather by legislative
action