Expansion into Asia

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  • Created on: 07-03-18 13:48
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  • Expansion in Asia
    • Reasons
      • Central Asia
        • Asia could provide raw materials (cotton)
        • Bordered Afghan/India/China. Chance of influence?
        • To provide living/working space for Russian peasants
    • Expansion into Central Asia
      • Territory mainly taken by force in 1880s
        • Comms more peaceful  - 1936 Stalin constitution Kirghizia & Tajikstan republics
          • Dumping eg Crimean Tatars to Kazakhstan alleged ties to Germany
            • Khrushchev allowed many to return, not Meskhetians or Volga Germans
              • Virgin lands Indigenous people not happy land swamped by immigrants
        • Steppe statue of 1891 - 40 acres of land for farms of no use to nomads
      • Largely avoided Russification - complex societies, hard transport
      • All-Russian Muslim League in 1st Duma, 1907 disallowed. Comms protected their rights
      • 1910 Stolypin - expropriated land, to raise migration
      • 1915-17 drawed upon in war effort. Revolt as in  Ramadan sensitive to Russian over involvement
    • Russian involvement in Far East
      • Develop transport - Trans Siberian railway 1903
      • Amir basin 1860 due to Muraviev (Siberia)Russia got territory by Amur rver & access to Pacific coast

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