Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia

ISBN-13: 9780367298906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 389 str.

Marc Raeff

Opis

This book considers the problems of imperial Russian politics and administration and offers a sketch of the generation that came of age in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. It explores modernization reform and liberalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Spis treści

Credits -- Introduction -- Russia After the Emancipation -- A Reactionary Liberal -- Some Reflections on Russian Liberalism -- Russian Youth on the Eve of Romanticism -- At the Origins of a Russian National Consciousness -- The Russian Autocracy and Its Officials1 -- Introduction -- Russia’s Autocracy and Paradoxes of Modernization -- Patterns of Russian Imperial Policy Toward the Nationalities -- Uniformity, Diversity, and the Imperial Administration in the Reign of Catherine II -- In the Imperial Manner -- The Domestic Policies of Peter III and His Overthrow -- The Empress and the Vinerian Professor -- Pugachev’s Rebellion -- State and Nobility in the Ideology of M. M. Shcherbatov -- Muscovy Looks West -- The Enlightenment in Russia and Russian Thought in the Enlightenment -- The Well-Ordered Police State and the Development of Modernity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Transfiguration and Modernization -- Literacy, Education, and the State in 17th–18th Century Europe

O autorze

Marc Raeff, a preeminent force in Russian historical studies, is Bakhmeteff Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at Columbia University.