The Romanovs

ISBN-13: 9780826430816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Lindsey Hughes

Opis

Almost all written histories of the period leading up to World War II stress political, diplomatic, and ideological conflicts. Arguing that previous historians have confused effect for cause and have considered these conflicts without reference to the systemic problems that provoked them. Paul Hehn focuses on the fierce rivalries among the Great Powers in the relentless search for markets during the world depression of the 1930s. These rivalries were exacerbated particularly in southeastern Europe where Germany dominated the economies and trade arenas of its neighbors in a semi-colonial manner. In A Low Dishonest Decade, Hehn surveys the five Major Powers and all the Eastern European countries from the Baltic to Turkey. But he primarily canvases the economic situations in strategic locations like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

Recenzje

'A history achieved with consummate skill ... an illuminating and admirably balanced narrative account' - Literary Review

Spis treści

PrefaceAbbreviations, dates, spellings and transliteration List of IllustrationsFamily Trees Introduction1. Romanov Roots, 1613-45: Michael 2. The Pious Tsars, 1645-96: Alexis, Fedor and Ivan V3. Transformation, 1682-1725: Peter the Great4. The Age of Empresses and Palace Revolutions, 1725-62: Catherine I, Peter II, Anna, Ivan VI, Elizabeth, Peter III5. Philosopher on the Throne, 1762-96: Catherine II 6. The Napoleonic Era, 1796-1825: Paul and Alexander I 7. Consistent Autocracy, 1825-55: Nicholas I 8. Reform and Reaction, 1855-94: Alexander II and Alexander III9. The Last Romanov: Nicholas II (i) 1894-1913 10. From Celebration to Annihilation: Nicholas II (ii) 1913-191811. Postscript, 1918-2007BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Lindsey Hughes was an internationally renowned authority on 17th and 18th century Russian history, in particular on the age of Peter the Great.As well as teaching at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where she was a professor and head of the history department, she wrote prolifically and was a valued member of an influential cohort of scholars brought together in the Eighteenth-Century Russia Study Group founded in 1968 by Anthony Cross. Her publications include Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (1998), Peter the Great: A Biography (2004) and Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 (1990).