Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725

ISBN-13: 9780521805858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 498 str.

Paul Bushkovitch

Opis

This book is a history of Russian politics during a fifty-year period that saw the transformation of Russia into a European monarchy by Peter the Great. Bushkovitch demonstrates that the interaction of the tsar and the ruling elite was at the core of Russian politics as Peter managed to largely master the contentious elite by a series of compromises, ultimately toward one that favored new men without excluding the aristocrats entirely. The outcome was a new balance of power at the center, and a new Europeanized culture.

Recenzje

'… an outstanding work of scholarship. The scale of the achievement is enviable: by scouring European archives and applying his forensic intelligence to a daunting range of published sources in several languages, Paul Bushkovitch has given us a wholly refreshing view of the politics of Peter's reign, rich in texture and all the more attractive for being expressed in plain English … there is not a dull page in the book … readers at almost every level of sophistication have much to learn from it.' Reviews in History

Spis treści

Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue: court politics and reform; 1. Tsar and boyars: structures and values; 2. The ascendancy of Artamon Matveev, 1671–6; 3. The reign of Tsar Fyodor, 1676–82; 4. The regency of Sofia, 1682–9; 5. Peter in power, 1689–99; 6. Peter and the favourites: Golovin and Menshikov, 1699–1706; 7. Poltava and the new gubernias, 1707–9; 8. The Senate and the eclipse of Menshikov, 1709–15; 9. The affair of the tsarevich, 1715–17; 10. The end of Aleksei Petrovich, 1718; Epilogue and conclusion, 1718–25; Bibliography; Index.