| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 710 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Dominic Lieven -- Empire -- Russia as empire and periphery / Dominic Lieven -- Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy / Theodore R. Weeks -- Geographies of imperial identity / Mark Bassin -- Culture, ideas, identities -- Russian culture in the eighteenth century / Lindsey Hughes -- Russian culture: 1801-1917 / Rosamund Bartlett -- Russian political thought, 1700-1917 / Gary M. Hamburg -- Russia and the legacy of 1812 / Alexander M. Martin -- Non-Russian nationalities -- Ukrainians and Poles / Timothy Snyder -- The Jews / Benjamin Nathans -- Islam in the Russian Empire / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Russian society, law and economy -- The elites / Dominic Lieven -- The groups between: raznochintsy, intelligentsia, professionals / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter -- Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century: portrait of a city / Catherine Evtuhov -- Russian Orthodoxy: Church, people and politics in Imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze -- Women, the family and public life / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Gender and the legal order in Imperial Russia / Michelle Lamarche Marrese -- Law, the judicial system and the legal profession / Jorg Baberowski -- Peasants and agriculture / David Moon -- The Russian economy and banking system / Boris Ananich -- Government -- Central government / Zhand P. Shakibi -- Provincial and local government / Janet M. Hartley -- State finances / Peter Waldron -- Foreign policy and the armed forces -- Peter the Great and the Northern War / Paul Bushkovitch -- Russian foreign policy, 1725-1815 / Hugh Ragsdale -- The imperial army / William C. Fuller, Jr -- Russian foreign policy: 1815-1917 / David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye -- The navy in 1900: imperialism, technology and class war / Nikolai Afonin -- Reform, war and revolution -- The reign of Alexander II: a watershed? / Larisa Zakharova -- Russian workers and revolution / Reginald E. Zelnik -- Police and revolutionaries / Jonathan W. Daly -- War and revolution, 1914-1917 / Eric Lohr |
| Summary |
This volume contains coverage of imperial Russia, encompassing political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Civilization
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History & Archaeology.
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History - General.
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004044
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Russia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004158
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Soviet Union -- History
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Soviet Union -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125714
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| Subject |
Russia
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lieven, D. C. B
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| ISBN |
9780511468285 |
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0511468288 |
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9781139055437 |
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1139055437 |
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9781139055437 |
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