Peter the Great

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This paper examines the move toward westernization that took place in Russia under the reign of Peter the Great. It provides an accounting of Peter's achievements that so intensely impacted Russian society and a discussion of the reasons behind Peter's success .

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"The groundwork for the Golden Age that Russia experienced between mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century was laid down by Peter the Great who founded and established the paradigms required for Russia's supremacy. Peter the Great, the most influential czar and military leader in Russian history, literally transformed his country from an almost medieval backwater region into one of the world's great powers at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Russia had missed out on both the Renaissance and the Reformation, which left it nearly a century behind the rest of Europe in every field imaginable: social, cultural, political and educational . However, due to Peter's keen observations and the effective plans of action that thus evolved, Russia emerged, almost overnight, as a mighty empire comparable with the likes of Britain, France and Germany. This rapid change in Russia's status was thus, wholly dependent upon the revolutionary ways of Peter the Great that he employed to rule over Russia."

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