'From Vision To Reality' By Ken Lewis

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Creating Connections: Russia’s Great Railroad “From Vision to Reality” is an excerpt written by Ken Lewis and published in 2003, describing the political and economic climate of Russia prior and during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway system. “From Vision to Reality” being published in 2003, about an event that transpired over one-hundred years earlier makes this document a secondary source by definition – a document about a time period written well after the fact. This document discerns bountiful insight into Tsar Alexander III’s, as well as his son Nicholas II’s, fiscal planning, geographic routing decisions, and government appointments preceding and during the Great Siberian Railways construction. Furthermore, this article offers evidence of the magnitude of improvements, their effects on Russia, and the gamble the dynasty made by pursuing the construction and completion of this …show more content…
Before the discovery of the resources and the connecting via railway, the Siberian territories were considered a place of banishment, Cossack, and an area of utter isolation that was loosely associated with Russia. However, this document reveals that the Tsar new how important it was to expand Russian nationalism and truly include the frontier population of Siberia to expand trade and culture. There is also an underlying notion in this document that perhaps the people of Russia, particularly the shriveled noble class, that were not convinced Russia should deplete the treasury in favor of this massive public works project – so there may have been some propaganda at play. Whether or not there was a use of persuasion for this transportation system to be paid for and constructed, one thing is certain: Siberia and the public perception of it changed rapidly in a short period of time from wild eastern edge and a place to be banished to a special part of a truly unified
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