Catherine the Great; A Short History

by Isabel de Madariaga

• ISBN13: 9780300054279
• ISBN10: 0300054270
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1993-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

One of the world's leading scholars of Russian history here presents the most informative, balanced, and up-to-date study yet written of Catherine the Great and her reign

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Catherine Seizes Power in the Russian Empire	p. 1
Russian Society in 1762	p. 13
Catherine's First Years	p. 24
The First Turkish War	p. 38
The Crisis of the 1770s	p. 50
The Reform of Local Administration and of the Legal System	p. 66
The Armed Neutrality and the Annexation of the Crimea	p. 80
Catherine's Influence on Russian Cultural Life	p. 91
Catherine's Educational Policy	p. 104
Catherine's Social Policy	p. 118
How Catherine Governed	p. 131
How the People Lived	p. 145
The War with Turkey and Sweden, and the Destruction of Poland	p. 162
Catherine's Economic Policy	p. 176
Catherine and the French Revolution	p. 189
Catherine as Woman and Ruler	p. 203
Bibliographical Note	p. 219
Glossary	p. 225
Weights and Measures	p. 225
Genealogical Table	p. 226
Administrative Charts	p. 227
Maps	p. 229
Index	p. 232
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