#Bestof2021: The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally posted November 21,, 2021)
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#Bestof2021: The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
(Originally posted November 7, 2021)
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| 1:06.2 | H.J. Mackender, International Relations, to comment on the world island, that is Europe |
| 1:13.2 | and Asia. |
| 1:14.8 | The world island is dominated by two empires, not simultaneously. |
| 1:21.1 | The Chinese Empire started to fade in about the 16th, 17th, 18th century. |
| 1:28.8 | Just as the Russian Empire petered the Great to Catherine the Great, organized itself and |
| 1:34.2 | expanded its power across the pivot nation, the heartland, Russia, 10-11 time zones. |
| 1:43.9 | Professor, a very good evening to you have served in an ironic fashion, that what we're |
| 1:50.7 | looking at, these Eurasian empires, working side by side, but not simultaneously, is that |
| 1:58.7 | in their effort to transform themselves, to modernize themselves, to catch up with |
| 2:04.7 | what they perceive to be the Western advantage, something like peter the Great, how he went |
| 2:10.0 | his embassy, sent all the gimmicks he could find back to Moscow, and told people to reproduce |
| 2:16.0 | them. |
| 2:17.0 | Well, in their effort to catch up, Stalin, I remember, talked about, we're going to do |
| 2:23.4 | five years and four, and bought everything he could find in the American market, including |
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