1. ABSOLUTISM AND ITS ALTERNATIVES The Russia of Peter the Great
Jonathan Davies
(Powerpoint will be on the website)

2. What is the background to Peter’s reforms?
What were Peter’s motives for the reforms?
What were Peter’s views of the state and of his role as tsar?
How did Peter’s reforms develop?
What was the opposition to Peter’s reforms? What were Peter’s motives for the reforms?
What was the opposition to Peter’s reforms?

4. Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava 1709

5. The Table of Ranks

6. Map of Tartary 1706

8. Peter the Great founding St Petersburg

9. Ivan Mazepa, the Ukrainian Cossack leader

10. Statue of Peter the Great in Moscow 1997