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Russia's Pivot to Asia From Czars to Putin

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The Eastern Pacific Expansion of Russia

The patterns of settlement in the far eastern siberia were determined by access to water. When russia conquered my homeland, like cousin hened river was really the backbone of expansion. And so you do have this a strange result, which is that this great land empire was largely explored and settled by maritime routes. I guess that disproves the old notion about their being in land and in maritime empires, or continental and maritime empires. There are really just maybe ocean going empires and river going empires. Those of the two boundaries that we ought to think about before we strayed too far from california.

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