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discuss the impact of peter the great

Answer 1

The impact was huge. Western European technology was imported by Peter in the late 1690s and continued until his death in 1725. Peter visited the Netherlands, France, England, and some of the German states hiring skilled craftsmen to come to Russia - - especially in areas such as ship building. Russia under Peter built its first navy.
The Russian army was modernized along Western lines and became a force in European power politics.
Peter learned about city planning and construction in England (Manchester) - - then used this knowledge and an army of hired craftsmen to build the Russian city of Petersburg from scratch.
Social customs, styles of dress, and grooming practices (shaving beards) were forced on the Russian aristocracy to bring them into the mainstream of advanced European culture.
Catherine continued the process of Westernization in Russia in the latter 1700s. She was herself German born.

This was not the era of the Russian Revolution which occurred in 1917-1918, almost 200 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080103075931AAtl6xc years after Peter died and more than 120 years after Catherine's death..

Answer 2

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