La guerra di Crimea come fattore di modernizzazione : Il caso dell’Impero ottomano e dell’Impero russo
Journal: Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano)
Year: 2017

The essay analyses the impact of Crimean war on the Russian and Ottoman empires.These were both pushed, in a different way but with a similar intent, to begin a complex policy of modernisation, giving its fruits in the 1860s and 1870s.Both Empires, located at the periphery of Europe, were governed by autocratic monarchs, lacked a tradition of civil rights and self-government and suffered from the comparison with the West, which represented in the Nineteenth century the successful model to be fol