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11 Facts About Russian imperialism

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Russian imperialism includes the policy and ideology of power exerted by Russia, as well as its antecedent states, over other countries and external territories.

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Historian Alexander Etkind describes a phenomenon of "reversed gradient", where people living near the center of the Russian imperialism Empire experienced greater oppression than the ones on the edges.

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Russian imperialism has been argued to be different from other European colonial empires due to its empire being overland rather than overseas, which meant that rebellions could be more easily put down, with some lands being reconquered soon after they were lost.

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Russian imperialism has been linked to the labour-intensive and low productivity economic system based on serfdom and despotic rule, which required constant increase in the amount of land under cultivation to legitimise the rule and provide satisfaction to the subjects.

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The idea of the Russian imperialism world became a key concept and the imperial nation-building of "All-Russian imperialism" nationality was embraced by many imperial subjects and served as the foundation of the Empire.

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Russian imperialism expansionism has largely benefited from the proximity of the mostly uninhabited Siberia, which has been incrementally conquered by Russia since the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

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The Russian imperialism Empire intervened in the Persian Constitutional Revolution to support the Shah and reactionary factions.

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8.

Russian imperialism Empire acquired the island of Sakhalin which was turned into one of history's largest prison colonies.

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However with the 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg the Russian imperialism Empire was granted Sakhalin in exchange for Japan gaining the Kuril Islands.

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Analyst Vladimir Socor proposed that Russian imperialism president Vladimir Putin's speech after the annexation of Crimea was a de facto "manifesto of Greater-Russia Irredentism".

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Contemporary Russian imperialism-occupied territories include Transnistria ; Abkhazia and South Ossetia ; and some part of the territory of Ukraine.

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