Understanding Imperial Russia : State and Society in the Old Regime / Marc Raeff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raeff, Marc, author.

Contributor:

Goldhammer, Arthur.

Keep, John.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines Russia's past back to the distant epoch which saw the emergence and consolidation of the empire of the tsars in order to compare and contrast pre and post revolutionary Russia and between succesive phases of the Imperial era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Keep, John

Preface

1. The Muscovite Background

2. Peter the Great's Revolution

3. Peter's System in Difficulty

4. The System of Peter the Great to Reform or Not to Reform?

5. The Dawn of the Nineteenth Century

6. The Regime of Nicholas I

7. The Transformation of Imperial Russia Continuity or Change?

Important Dates

Bibliographical Introduction

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89899-1

OCLC:

1100440805