dc.contributor.advisor | Radushev, Evgeniy | |
dc.contributor.author | Ruoff, Richard | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-13T09:32:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-13T09:32:53Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2020-12 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2021-01-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/54884 | |
dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of article. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (M.S.): Bilkent University, Department of History, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2020. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-153). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis provides a history of Tsar Nikolai I's foreign policy toward the Ottoman Empire,
in particular regards to his attempt to both protect and dominate the Empire in its decline and to
manage what he viewed as its imminent and inevitable fall. While the Tsar adeptly carried out this
policy throughout most of his reign, he committed a number of critical diplomatic blunders in the
1850's climaxing in Russia's defeat in the Crimean War. In this thesis I investigate his increasingly
aggressive policy toward the Ottomans and the causes of his ultimate failure to maintain Russia's
dominance through diplomatic means, as well as catalog the evolution of Nikolai's strategy to
manage the Ottomans' collapse. I conclude that the Tsar's personal ideology and prideful
inflexibility proved to be the cause of Russia's diplomatic failure and isolation, ultimately resulting
in their defeat in the Crimean War and that Nikolai's diplomatic failures correlate with his
increasingly aggressive plotting to dismantle the Ottoman Empire. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Richard Ruoff | en_US |
dc.format.extent | vi, 153 leaves ; 30 cm. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Crimean war | en_US |
dc.subject | Eastern question | en_US |
dc.subject | Holy places dispute | en_US |
dc.subject | Nicholas I | en_US |
dc.subject | Ottoman Empire | en_US |
dc.subject | Russian Empire | en_US |
dc.subject | Treaty of Hünkâr İskelesi | en_US |
dc.subject | Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca | en_US |
dc.title | “Est-ce au medecin ou a l'heritier?”: The crescendo and decrescendo of Tsar Nikolai I's management of Ottoman decline, 1825-53 | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Est-ce au medecin ou a l'heritier?”: Çar I. Nikolay’ın Osmanlının gerilemesini idare etmedeki inişleri ve çıkışları, 1825-53 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.department | Department of History | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
dc.description.degree | M.S. | en_US |
dc.identifier.itemid | B125443 | |