When Peter the Great ruled Russia, he continued the practice of which of the following?

(A) Decentralization of power (B) Isolationism (C) Serfdom (D) ReformExplanation: Peter the Great did not free the serfs; it took the Industrial Revolution in Russia to make that feasible. He did nothing to decentralize power—in fact, he consolidated it (A). He worked hard to reverse the isolationism (B) that had left Russia on the margins of modernization. He did not continue reform, but he initiated it in many instances (D).