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The reforms of Peter the Great : progress through coercion in Russia / Evgenii V. Anisimov ; translated with an introduction by John T. Alexander.

By: Language: English Original language: Russian Series: New Russian historyPublication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1993.Description: xi, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1563240475
  • 9781563240478
  • 1563240483
  • 9781563240485
Uniform titles:
  • Vremi︠a︡ petrovskikh reform. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 947/.05/092 20
LOC classification:
  • DK133 .A5513 1993
Other classification:
  • 15.70
  • 15.74
  • NN 7800
  • 7,41
  • 947.05092
Online resources:
Contents:
The New Russian History / Donald J. Raleigh -- Translator's Introduction / John T. Alexander -- Father of the Fatherland. The Personality of the Reformer -- Victory at Any Cost. The Narva Confusion. "Seek to overthrow the foe" Industrialization Petrine-Stvle. "It's difficult for a man to know and direct everything sight unseen" On the Roads of War: From Narva to Poltava. The Breakthrough: From Poltava to Hango -- Birth of the Empire. The Realization of Peter's State Ideal. The Serf Economy. Producing the All-Russian Subject People. Reforming the Clerical Rank. "The police is the soul of the citizenry" The Imperial Idea -- Heritage and Heirs. "To whom shall I leave the planting described above?"
Summary: This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.

The New Russian History / Donald J. Raleigh -- Translator's Introduction / John T. Alexander -- Father of the Fatherland. The Personality of the Reformer -- Victory at Any Cost. The Narva Confusion. "Seek to overthrow the foe" Industrialization Petrine-Stvle. "It's difficult for a man to know and direct everything sight unseen" On the Roads of War: From Narva to Poltava. The Breakthrough: From Poltava to Hango -- Birth of the Empire. The Realization of Peter's State Ideal. The Serf Economy. Producing the All-Russian Subject People. Reforming the Clerical Rank. "The police is the soul of the citizenry" The Imperial Idea -- Heritage and Heirs. "To whom shall I leave the planting described above?"

This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today.

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