Imperial Russian foreign policy
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Imperial Russian foreign policy
（Woodrow Wilson Center series）
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Cambridge University Press, 1993
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Some contributions translated from Russian
Includes bibligraphical references and index
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Description
Imperial Russian Foreign Policy aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicions of diabolical cunning, inscrutable motives, and international plots using unseen forces of the gigantic, fear-inspiring empire of the tsar. The contributors, leading historians from both Russia and the West, examine Imperial foreign policy from its origins to the October Revolution, revealing a policy that, as in other countries, had a complex of motives - commerce, nationalism, the interests of various social groups - but an unusual origin, coming almost exclusively from the entourage of the tsar. The work is based largely on original research in Soviet archives, which only became possible after Soviet glasnost.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. The Origins Of Imperial Russian Foreign Policy: 1. Imperial consciousness in eighteenth-century Russian foreign policy E. V. Anisimov
- 2. The role of the Baltic in Russian foreign policy 1721-1773 Hans Bagger
- Part II. Imperial Russia and the Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century: 3. Rusian projects of conquest in the eighteenth century Hugh Ragsdale
- 4. Runaway peasants and Russian motives for the partitions of Poland Robert E. Jones
- Part III. Imperial Russia in the Coming of the Crimean War: 5. Policy traditions and the Menshikov Mission of 1853 David M. Goldfrank
- 6. The personal responsibility of Nicholas I for the coming of the Crimean War V. N. Vinogradov
- Part IV. Imperial Russian Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth Century America: 7. Russian policy in the US during the Crimean War V. N. Ponomarev
- 8. The sale of Alaska in the context of Russo-American relations in the nineteenth century N. N. Bolkhovitinov
- Part V. Adventure and Disaster in the Late Empire: 9. Russian policy in the Balkans in the reign of Alexander II, 1855-1881 David MacKenzie
- 10. The foreign policy of Russia in the Far East at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries A. V. Ignatiev
- 11. The interaction of foreign and domestic interests in central and southeast Europe, 1900-1914 David McDonald
- Part VI. Perspectives and Conclusions: 12. Persistent factors in Russian foreign policy: an interpretative essay Alfred J. Rieber.
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