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Updated: May 18, 2025
Rapid Growth of Russia Expansive Tendency of Agricultural Peoples The Russo-Slavonians The Northern Forest and the Steppe Colonisation The Part of the Government in the Process of Expansion Expansion towards the West Growth of the Empire Represented in a Tabular Form Commercial Motive for Expansion The Expansive Force in the Future Possibilities of Expansion in Europe Persia, Afghanistan, and India Trans-Siberian Railway and Weltpolitik A Grandiose Scheme Determined Opposition of Japan Negotiations and War Russia's Imprudence Explained Conclusion.
The other alternative may be effected either by extending the area of cultivation or by improving the system of agriculture. The Russo-Slavonians, being an agricultural people, experienced this difficulty, but for them it was not serious. A convenient way of escape was plainly indicated by their peculiar geographical position. They were not hemmed in by lofty mountains or stormy seas.
From that time dates the rapid expansion of the Russo-Slavonians a movement that is still going on at the present day. To the north, the east, and the south new principalities were formed and governed by men who all claimed to be descendants of Rurik, and down to the end of the sixteenth century no Russian outside of this great family ever attempted to establish independent sovereignty.
The Russo-Slavonians, on the contrary, were not conquered, but voluntarily invited a foreign prince to come and rule over them! Hence the whole social and political development of Russia has been essentially peaceful, and the Russian people know nothing of social castes or feudalism.
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