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Lets imagine that during the 18th and 19th century liberal ideas and a large domestic market envolves in tsarist Russia. Furthermore serfdom is abolished much earlier and effective, more people become literate and more open for a free market system. A larger successful Bourgeoisie evolves and shapes the mentality . Eventually the Orthodox Church is in favour of this developement. The now reformed constitutional Russian Empire considers itself as a part of the Western Hemisphere.