Patrons of enlightenment : the Free Economic Society in eighteenth-century Russia / Colum Leckey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leckey, Colum, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Russia--Societies, etc--History--18th century.

Economics.

Russia--Economic policy--18th century.

Russia.

Russia--Economic conditions--To 1861.

Imperatorskoe volnoe ekonomicheskoe obshchestvo (Russia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the Society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work-the St. Petersburg aristocrats and academics who established it in the 1760's, the budding intelligentsia, Catherine the Great and her court, its correspondents in Western Europe and the Russian provinces, and the wider Russian public.

Contents:

Patrons of Enlightenment; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Foundations and Façades; Chapter Two: "The Decay of Agriculture"; Chapter Three: Patrons and the Peasant Question; Chapter Four: Voices from the Provinces; Chapter Five: "Not Only to Be Read but Fulfilled"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-61149-745-0

1-283-17312-3

9786613173126

1-61149-343-9

OCLC:

747409497