389 Pages
by
Routledge
389 Pages
by
Routledge
389 Pages
by
Routledge
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Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best essays from his prolific, forty-year career; they span the history of Russia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. In these essays, Raeff considers the problems of imperial Russian politics and administration, analyzes Russia's intellectual and social history as it... Read more
Credits -- Introduction -- Russia After the Emancipation -- A Reactionary Liberal -- Some Reflections on Russian Liberalism -- Russian Youth on the Eve of Romanticism -- At the Origins of a Russian National Consciousness -- The Russian Autocracy and Its Officials1 -- Introduction -- Russia’s Autocracy and Paradoxes of Modernization -- Patterns of Russian Imperial Policy Toward the Nationalities -- Uniformity, Diversity, and the Imperial Administration in the Reign of Catherine II -- In the Imperial Manner -- The Domestic Policies of Peter III and His Overthrow -- The Empress and the Vinerian Professor -- Pugachev’s Rebellion -- State and Nobility in the Ideology of M. M. Shcherbatov -- Muscovy Looks West -- The Enlightenment in Russia and Russian Thought in the Enlightenment -- The Well-Ordered Police State and the Development of Modernity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Transfiguration and Modernization -- Literacy, Education, and the State in 17th–18th Century Europe
Biography
Marc Raeff, a preeminent force in Russian historical studies, is Bakhmeteff Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at Columbia University.
