During 1683-1908, both the Ottoman and Russian empires dealt with internal and external challenges that affected their methods of ruling their empires. Three similarities they both encountered was they both faced Westernization and constitutional challenges directly, they both had many members of the rising education urban middle school class deserted constitutional nationalism and lastly, they were both able to attain the Western industrial challenge. While experiencing these internal and external challenges, they also faced many differences including how the Ottoman Empire was able to develop a pattern of responses to the Western challenge, how the Russian Empire was more focused on reforms regarding politics and the Nicholas I implemented
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2, p. 786). The Western modernity and increasing military, political and economic strength contributed to the Asian empire to adapt to its challenges which caused several territorial losses for the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Empire also suffered from the westernization by having to give up roughly one third of their population, territory and resources to the Germans in return for their peaceful withdrawal from the conflicts regarding the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Chapter 28, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 860). Another similarity was they both had many members of the rising education urban middle school class deserted constitutional nationalism (Chapter 25, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 787). In the Ottoman Empire they turned to ethnic nationalism and in the Russian Empire to pan-Slavism and Marxism. The Ottoman and Russian Empire were also both able to meet the Western industrial challenge, which was cheap, factory-produced cotton textiles without completely granting their market (Chapter 25, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 787). Once both empires were able to attract foreign capital for the construction of expensive railroads and factories, they were able to start their own paths to …show more content…
2, p. 766) . This allowed the Ottoman Empire to regain themselves after all the initial humiliations. Since the Russian Empire had adapted themselves to the Western European Military tactic earlier than the Ottomans, they found it extremely difficult to defend themselves and therefor developed a pattern to meet with the Western challenge. Another difference was the Russian Empire was more focused on reforms regarding politics meanwhile the Ottoman Empire focused more on education. “But another legacy was political and cultural resistance to any such measures coming from outside Russia, not unlike the cultural resistance that would plague Chinese reformers in the nineteenth century (Chapter 25, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 776)”. The Russian Empire believed they would measure up to the Western Europe states if they improved their political reforms. Thanks to Catherine II’s reforms, her achievements played a key role in the development of Russia to be seen as a modern state not only in a politics but also in a cultural sense. “In foreign affairs, Catherine was determined to continue and even exceed Peter the Great’s
2, p. 786). The Western modernity and increasing military, political and economic strength contributed to the Asian empire to adapt to its challenges which caused several territorial losses for the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Empire also suffered from the westernization by having to give up roughly one third of their population, territory and resources to the Germans in return for their peaceful withdrawal from the conflicts regarding the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Chapter 28, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 860). Another similarity was they both had many members of the rising education urban middle school class deserted constitutional nationalism (Chapter 25, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 787). In the Ottoman Empire they turned to ethnic nationalism and in the Russian Empire to pan-Slavism and Marxism. The Ottoman and Russian Empire were also both able to meet the Western industrial challenge, which was cheap, factory-produced cotton textiles without completely granting their market (Chapter 25, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 787). Once both empires were able to attract foreign capital for the construction of expensive railroads and factories, they were able to start their own paths to …show more content…
2, p. 766) . This allowed the Ottoman Empire to regain themselves after all the initial humiliations. Since the Russian Empire had adapted themselves to the Western European Military tactic earlier than the Ottomans, they found it extremely difficult to defend themselves and therefor developed a pattern to meet with the Western challenge. Another difference was the Russian Empire was more focused on reforms regarding politics meanwhile the Ottoman Empire focused more on education. “But another legacy was political and cultural resistance to any such measures coming from outside Russia, not unlike the cultural resistance that would plague Chinese reformers in the nineteenth century (Chapter 25, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. 776)”. The Russian Empire believed they would measure up to the Western Europe states if they improved their political reforms. Thanks to Catherine II’s reforms, her achievements played a key role in the development of Russia to be seen as a modern state not only in a politics but also in a cultural sense. “In foreign affairs, Catherine was determined to continue and even exceed Peter the Great’s