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“Arnold Toynbee voit dans les événements qui vont suivre la preuve de la justesse de sa théorie du défi et de la réponse. Pour lui, la puissante pression exercée sur la Russie par le monde occidental au XVIIe siècle – qui devait amener l’armée polonaise à Moscou et donner aux Suédois le littoral de la Baltique – fut « le principal point de concentration des forces vitales russes ». À cette pression, écrit l’historien anglais, « Pierre le Grand allait répondre en construisant, en 1703, Saint-Pétersbourg, sur le territoire repris par les armes aux Suédois... »”

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Book:Histoire de la Russie et de son empire
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