) What were Louis XVI’s most serious mistakes during the French Revolution? Had he been a more able ruler, might the French Revolution have been avoided? Could a constitutional monarchy have succeeded? Did the revolution ultimately have little to do with the competence of the monarch? 2) How and why did Russia emerge as a great power while Poland did not? How were Peter the Great’s domestic reforms related to his military ambitions? What were his methods of reform? How did family conflict influence his later policies? Was Peter a successful ruler?
