Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russian Foreign Policy
- Crimean War
- crisis of 48-49:
- main focus of Nicholas 1 on domestic order.
concerned with keeping order, foreign policy
subordinate to keeping order in domestic Russia
- the 1833 crisis and Russian troops at
border of Constantinople Russian restraint
to avoid a european war
- growing tension between
Britain and Russia over the
region
- crisis of 1848 in France and spreading
instability across Europe
- Russian troops invade Hungary in 1849 to help
defeat rebellion against vienna
- geopolitics of the crisis: why Russia had an
interest in the Southern tier: the black sea and
symbolism of Constantinople (home of
orthodoxy)
- what the British wanted: concern
about India and rise of Russia as a
naval power in the med.
- What the french wanted: the
cover of the holy places
- blundering into war: Metrichov = mistake. persuaded France to
back of holy places, and then claimed that Russia should protect
the holy places- political blunder
- the Russian defeat:
- quiet first year
- Anglo-french naval domination
- seige of sevastopol (1854)
- possibility of austrian intervention
- paris settlement of 1856:
restrictions on Russian
warships passing out of black
sea.
- impact on the movement to reform: serfdom
etc. very hard for either side to win, but
symbolic defeat for Russia because cannot
win on owns soil
- Post crimean foreign policy:
- avoiding confrontations, rebuilding ties with france
- pushing on to south
- complex diplomacy: concern in West over
the suppression of the polish rebellion
- emergence of pan-slavism in Russian society during 1870s
- Eastern Crisis again:
- Risings in Herzegovina 1875 and Bulgaria (1876) created tensions with
the ottomans and the austrians
- 1877 Russian drive towards constantinople
- Pan slavism and the liberation of the Ottoman
slavs: Alexander 11 and Russian Public
opinion
- war scare with British
- 1860s and 70s
- rise of panslavism: idea that Russians have natural
allegiances with slavs. Russia should be their
protector?
- why does this rise? press
- tsar very suspicious of panslavism, would bring
conflict late 1870s. Russian government has a
problem; large opinion in support of more aggressive
foreign policy