Russian Empire

An Empire

• Political Organization
• Authoritarian
• Multicultural
• Massive body of land 

It's all about land

• 22, 880, 000 km2
• Three times the US area
• At least 17 nations within it

GEOGRAPHY WAS ALSO ITS MAIN WEAKNESS

• Isolation from the Modern World
• Mobility was an osbtacle, 1 week by train.
• Most ports were frozen throughout the year
• Only 5% of land could be used for agriculture
• Moscow did not reach Siberia until 1890

POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES

• Hardly a Centralized Government
• Political Indifference
• Regionalism/ Nationalism 
• Poor communications 

POPULATION

• A general idea of the country's growth and wellbeing
• How active the cities are
• The size of its army
• If its an old or a yong country
• The economic life of a country

ETHNIC POPULATION

• 55 russians
• 22 ukranians
• 7,8 poles
• 5,4 Byelorussians
• 5, Jews

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• Tartars 3,7
• Armenians 1,150
• Georgians 110
• Romanians 1,010
• Iranians 1000