HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Catherine the Great
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Joseph II
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Peter the Great
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some notable examples of despots are: Mao Zedong. Joseph Stalin. Adolf Hitler.
Detailed explanation-2: -Peter was not solely content with increasing trade relations with the eighteenth-century European powers, and he implemented hard-line social and cultural reforms to Europeanize Russia. For example, the Russian nobility were forced to cut their long beards and wear European-style dress.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enlightenment ideas would lead to Peter relying on a system of meritocracy rather than the traditional hereditary means of promoting people to various positions in government or the military. Military reforms from the West would lead to Russia becoming a dominant military power in the east.
Detailed explanation-4: -Catherine the Great is considered an enlightened despot by some because of her patronage of arts, literature, and education. An avid reader in her youth, she was fluent in French as well as German before diving into Russian literature.
Detailed explanation-5: -Joseph II, along with Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great, have been deemed the three most influential Enlightenment Absolutist monarchs.