Many historians consider pre world war Europe intensely disembogulated when it came to diplomacy. Most historians would consider the Russo-Japanese war to be the first major conflict of the 20th century. In the Russian Empire the old ideals of enlightened despotism during the times of Peter III and Katherine The Great were a thing of the past. Ever since the death of Alexander II the Romanov dynasty was pursuing a more nationalistic approach to administration and foreign policy. …show more content…
Pan-Slavism is an idea that all slavic countries with slavic culture should unite into one confederation. Having deep roots with idealism and the romanticism movement the idea quickly caught on with the intelligente classes of the Slavic nations including the Russian Empire. With the new foreign policy of Slavic came new rivals, russia's vast imperialism and participation in the great game expanded its borders to the pacific siberia. Recently invading Manchuria from the Chinese during the Boxer Rebellion The Russians had enticed a new rival the