殖民扩张对美、俄现代化的不同影响

Colonial Expansion's Different Influence on Russion and American Modernization

殖民扩张是近代俄、美两国的重要主题。但是,由于历史传统、政治经济制度以及殖民统治政策不同,殖民扩张对俄、美两国的经济、政治现代化产生了截然不同的结果。在俄国,殖民扩张与农奴制、沙皇专制统治相连,因而殖民扩张滞缓了俄国现代化进程;在美国,殖民扩张则促进了经济现代化和政治民主化。

Colonial expansion is an important theme in modern Russia and America. However, on account of diversity in historical tradition, political and economical institution and colonial rule policies, colonial expansion had made different influence on their economical and political modernization respectively. In Russia, Being in relation with serfdom and Tsarist tyrannical system, colonial expansion had detained Russian modernization, while in America, colonial expansion had being advanced its economical modernization and political democratization.