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| Maps: The Expansion of Muscovy in the 16th and 17th centuries | ||
| Maps: The Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th century | ||
| Maps: Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great | ||
| Russia at its Greatest Extent | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | The Russian Empire: How and Why | 3 |
| Pt. 2 | State-building | |
| 1 | The First Crises of empire | 45 |
| 2 | The Secular State of Peter the Great | 75 |
| 3 | Assimilating Peter's Heritage | 95 |
| 4 | The Apogee of the Secular State | 120 |
| Pt. 3 | Social classes, religion and culture in Imperial Russia | |
| 1 | The Nobility | 153 |
| 2 | The Army | 183 |
| 3 | The Peasantry | 198 |
| 4 | The Orthodox Church | 225 |
| 5 | Towns and the Missing Bourgeoisie | 246 |
| 6 | The Birth of the Intelligentsia | 263 |
| 7 | Literature as 'Nation-Builder' | 286 |
| Pt. 4 | Imperial Russia under pressure | |
| 1 | The Reforms of Alexander II | 315 |
| 2 | Russian Socialism | 345 |
| 3 | Russification | 367 |
| 4 | The Revolution of 1905-7 | 398 |
| 5 | The Duma Monarchy | 424 |
| 6 | The Revolution of 1917 | 453 |
| Conclusions | 478 | |
| Afterthoughts on the Soviet Experience | 482 | |
| Chronology | 487 | |
| Notes | 493 | |
| Index | 531 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Tony Milazzo
reviewed Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 on October 02, 2011
Russia
An enjoyable introduction to Russian imperial history. His thesis that Russian empire-building obstructed Russian nation-building is one that I find quite convincing.
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