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Onto Chapter 4: Constitutional Autocracy
— Dec 30, 2025 09:40AM
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Tsar Nicholas II’s need for autocratic power reveals its dire consequences for the first time.
“Modernity, in other words, was not a sociological process - moving from ‘traditional’ to ‘modern’ society - but a geopolitical process: a matter of acquiring what it took to join the great powers, or fall victim to them.
Also Kotkin dabbles in light “what-if” on the final page, which I dislike.
— Dec 30, 2025 09:39AM
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“Modernity, in other words, was not a sociological process - moving from ‘traditional’ to ‘modern’ society - but a geopolitical process: a matter of acquiring what it took to join the great powers, or fall victim to them.
Also Kotkin dabbles in light “what-if” on the final page, which I dislike.













