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Article: Imperial Expansion, Russia
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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IMPERIAL EXPANSION, RUSSIA
IMPERIAL EXPANSION, RUSSIA.
The transformation of the tiny principality of Moscow into a Eurasian empire took place over several centuries, but by the end of the seventeenth century Russia had become the largest country in the world. No single motivation ("urge to the sea," fear of foreign invasion or domination, control of trade routes, unbridled expansionism) explains all Russian territorial acquisitions in the early modern period, and the process is best viewed as a series of ad hoc decisions, opportunities, and actions. Recent commentators have concluded that no messianic ("theory of the Third Rome") or programmatic (the spurious "testament of Peter I") ...
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