The reforms of Peter the Great : progress through coercion in Russia
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The reforms of Peter the Great : progress through coercion in Russia
（The New Russian history）
M.E. Sharpe, c1993
- : cloth
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Vremi︠a︡ petrovskikh reform
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Bibliography: p. 309-312
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Father of the Fatherland
- The Personality of the Reformer
- Victory at any Cost
- The Narva Confusion
- "Seek to overthrow the foe"
- Industrialization Petrine-Style
- "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 Hangoe
- 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?"
- Conclusion
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