States make wars, and wars make states

  Craft quotes historian Charles Tilly to the effect that “States make wars, and wars make states.” Use Cracraft, Hosking, and lectures to discuss how this applies to the Russia of Peter I and the way his wars prompted change in so many different areas, particularly military, economic, and administrative. How was Peter’s “revolution” paid for? How do Cracraft and Hosking regard the high costs of these reforms?