The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia: Progress Through Violence in Russia

by Anisimov,Evgenii V.

• ISBN13: 9781563240478
• ISBN10: 1563240475
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-05-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself?
Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today.

Author Biography

Evgenii V. Anisimov was educated in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), where he is a senior research scholar at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is currently a fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

The New Russian History	p. vii
Translator's Introduction	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
The Personality of the Reformer	p. 13
The Narva Confusion	p. 43
Seek to Overthrow the Foe	p. 57
Industrialization Petrine-Style	p. 70
It's Difficult for a Man to Know and Direct Everything Sight Unseen	p. 87
On the Roads of War: from Narva to Poltava	p. 95
The Breakthrough: from Poltava to Hangö	p. 123
The Realization of Peter's State Ideal	p. 143
The Serf Economy	p. 170
Producing the All-Russian Subject People	p. 184
Reforming the Clerical Rank	p. 203
The Police is the Soul of the Citizenry	p. 217
The Imperial Idea	p. 244
To Whom Shall I Leave the Planting Described Above?	p. 267
Conclusion	p. 295
Notes	p. 299
For Further Reading	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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