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Preface | p. vii |
Abbreviations | p. ix |
The problem of power | p. 1 |
Catherine the Great, 1729-96 | p. 1 |
Power and the 'great man' | p. 5 |
Power defined: coercion or consensus? | p. 8 |
The power of the monarch in early-modern Europe | p. 12 |
Catherine takes power | p. 23 |
Power hungry? Catherine before her accession | p. 23 |
The coup of 1762 | p. 28 |
Consequences of the coup: Peter, Paul and Pugachev | p. 32 |
Images of power | p. 41 |
The representation of power and the power of representation | p. 41 |
Theatre of power: the court | p. 48 |
Powers behind the throne? Catherine, favouritism and female rule | p. 53 |
The power of ideas: Catherine and the philosophes | p. 64 |
The philosophes and the monarch | p. 64 |
Despotism | p. 70 |
The power of the legislator | p. 75 |
Toleration | p. 78 |
War and expansion | p. 80 |
Catherine and Russian political culture | p. 88 |
Political culture and public opinion | p. 88 |
Cosmopolitanism and national diversity in the Enlightenment | p. 90 |
Catherine as writer | p. 94 |
Catherine and the 'public sphere' | p. 98 |
Catherine's patronage of scholarship and the arts | p. 102 |
Catherine and her critics: censorship and freedom of expression | p. 104 |
Enlightened despotism | p. 113 |
Enlightened despotism | p. 113 |
Utility and the common good | p. 115 |
Religion and the Church | p. 116 |
Empire | p. 119 |
Populationism and public health | p. 121 |
Economy | p. 123 |
Serfdom and social policy | p. 124 |
Central and local government | p. 128 |
Crime and punishment | p. 130 |
Education | p. 133 |
Power relationships in Russia | p. 141 |
Catherine and her ministers | p. 141 |
Catherine and the nobility | p. 148 |
Russia as a European great power | p. 155 |
Catherine and the making of Russian foreign policy | p. 155 |
Prussia, Poland and the 'northern system', 1762-74 | p. 160 |
Austria, the Ottoman Empire and the Crimea, 1774-89 | p. 164 |
Catherine and the French Revolution | p. 169 |
Epilogue: power transferred and transformed | p. 178 |
The death of an empress | p. 178 |
Further Reading | p. 182 |
Index | p. 189 |
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