Russia in the age of the enlightenment : essays for Isabel de Madariaga
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Russia in the age of the enlightenment : essays for Isabel de Madariaga
(Studies in Russia and East Europe)
Macmillan in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1990
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"Bibliography of the Publications of Isabel de Madariaga": p. 242-247
Includes index
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Description
In the 18th century, Peter the Great's newly-created Russian Empire consolidated its position as one of the European Great Powers, and became part of the community of European thought and culture. This collection of essays honouring Isabel de Madariaga's distinguished contribution to the study of Russia in the period examines important aspects both of the internal development of Russia in the age of the Enlightenment and of the relationship with the rest of Europe. Topics include international relations, legal theory, public philanthropy, the peasant question, developments in language and in social thought, the role of the writer and that of the favourites, the treatment of the schismatic Olfi Belief. The volume is broadly conceived, to present the wider picture as well as embodying original research.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Marc Raeff
- Russia as a European Great Power, H.M.Scott
- Russian National Consciousness and its development in the eighteenth century, Ilia Serman
- the image of the eighteenth-century Russian author, W.Gareth Jones
- navigation and the modernization of Petrine Russia - teachers - textbooks - terminology, W.F.Ryan
- favourites, favouritism and female rule in Russia, 1725-1796, John T. Alexander
- F.G.Strube de Piermont and the origins of Russian legal history, W.E.Butler
- the question of serfdom - Catherine II, the Russian debate and the view from the Baltic periphery (J.G.Eisen and G.H.Merkel), Roger Bartlett
- philanthropy in the reign of Catherine the Great - aims and realities, Janet M.Hartley
- Catherine the Great - views from the distaff side, Anthony G.Cross
- the secret committee on the old believers - moving away from Catherine II's policy of religious toleration
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