Russia is the biggest ruled territory in the world. From Kiev, and Moscow, down to Novosibirsk, and across to Vladivostok, its lands stretch far and wide. As a result of having such a massive piece of land, made it hard to keep up with the speed of human development. This affected Russia's political rule in many ways. As it's neighbors of Europe advanced in society, Russia lacked behind. Because of the geographical location of Russian lands, Russian peasantry was hard to maintain, and their course of political history was much harder to progress as a whole before modern times. Russia lacked control of its entire population, made the people want to try their own way of thinking, and made expansion almost impossible because it's land mass was just too big to maintain in post-modern times. If Russia would have been smaller, comparable to a country in Europe, it could have been much better off with much less problems.

Russia lacked complete control of its population before the 1800s. Although such places as Kiev, Moscow, and other bigger cities were under great rule and power from the rulers of the time, other places that were much farther away in the central areas and to the Fa

ith the growing nations around it, nor keep total political control of its entire population, thus terminating the chance of what could have been a greater nation before the 1800s.

g restricted to the city that they were stationed at made them not be able to expand, further restricting the means of growth of a major percentage of the population.

Russia's huge territories made the peasants feel like they had no end to their suffering, and that they had no escape. Therefore, they tried to revolt. Nobels and Rulers needed the peasants more than anything. They counted for most of the work and taxes of the day, for they made up over 75% of the population in Russian society. Many times throughout Russian history rulers have come to cities where there has been a revolts against them. They would come, take away, or possibly execute, the people apposing the law to keep city ordinances in tacked. From Ivan "the terrible" and his peasant revolts opposing him up into its height in 1572 with the destruction of the city Novgorod, to the revolts of 1772-74. Both dealt with peasants wanting more than they were getting in society. Russia had problems with peasants that needed to be controlled. Having a huge landmass to deal with made revolts happen across Russia more often because there was less people available and willing to !

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Russia's geographical location makes it hard for expansion. Part of Russia's land mass is covered in permafrost making it almost impossible to build on. In these areas in the winter it freezes making it possible to build, but then in the summer things begin to thaw. Whatever was built on this area of permafros

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