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Imperial Russia & OttomanEmpire:
Comparement of Socities



Fall, 2007






Abstract:

Today, contemporary political borders might seem that they were always there and never changed. But actually what we have seen today is accumulation of hundreds years of international relations. Sometimes states were the main actor and sometimes entities called as empires that contain multiethnic, multilingual units within them. With this paper I tried to give information about two significant empires: Russian and Ottoman Empires. And mostly my emphasize was over the social structure and cultural settings of this two empire. But who are they?
When we look at the Russian Empire we see that it was existed from 1721 until Russian Revolution 1917 . It was successor of Tsardom of Russia which accepts itself as heritage of Rome Culture. Russian Empire with its huge territories once was one of the largest empires of the world. It stretched from Eastern Europe, across Northern Asia and into North America, even larger than Ottomans. Its government ruled by Tsar was one of the last absolute monarchies left in Europe in 19th century. Much of its expansion took place in 18th century. The total area of Russian Empire equaled 21.3 million square kilometers, 128 million people were registered in national census in 1897 (Finland and Polish provinces included), by the year of 1914 population of Russia increased up to 178 millions .
On the other side Ottoman Empire covers a 600 hundred years of process in world history. At the height of its power this multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire became diffused over three continents controlling much of Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The empire was at the centre of interactions between the East and West for six centuries. The Ottomans regarded themselves as the heirs of both Roman...