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Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map of key events

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Tokugawa shogunate and sakoku

Black Ships and the opening of Japan

Meiji Restoration and Boshin War

Early Meiji reforms (1868–77)

Meiji Constitution and modernisation

Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars

Brezhnev and the Era of Stagnation

Perestroika and glasnost

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Shock therapy in Russia

Oligarchs and the First Chechen War

Meiji and post-Soviet Russia compared

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