Nations are defined by the impact and contribution they've had to other societies. Russia is a great and powerful nation, which was for many years one of two super powers on Earth, but it took centuries and radical changes to get there. Peter the Great's reforms in Ideology, Military, Government, and Domestic sectors have changed and have had a great impact on the coarse of history for Russia, and the rest of the world. .
Peter felt that everything that had ever happened before in the past was entirely wrong. The whole of Russia must be changes in its ideology and views. Cultural gap between Russia had yawned wide. Peter tried to reform the ideology to enable the country to catch up with the rest of Europe. He had the idea that Russia could be improved with just one great leap foreword, in this case this was Westernization. He was determined to Westernize his large kingdom. The country was dragged into Europe, and he wanted no turning back. Expansion was no longer directed to the East but West. He was the first Tsar to be determined to bring the European culture to Russia. He is held as the sole person to have dragged Russia from Medieval into the modern world. He introduced Western culure, commerce, technology and constructed city built upon European ideology, St. Petersburg. He built it to sure continual contact with the west. It became the new capital that could reach the west very easily. With this city he focused Russian elites on to Europe. It was his view to the west that German ideology cme to Russia. It stressed the role of the authority and the duties and reasonability's of the individual rather then his rights and always viewed him as an inseparable part of a community to when he should owe his primary allegiance. Peter forcibly changed all of these ideas. In the order to reform customs, gentlemen, merchants, and toher subjects were forced to shave their beards or pay tax. Clothes were also altered to look more European rather then Oriental.
