Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Collected Essays by Isabel de Madariaga

ISBN-13: 9780582322554 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 312 str.

Isabel De Madariaga;Madariaga

Opis

This collection of essays on 18th-century Russia challenges the conventional view of imperial Russia as a semi-barbaric outsider on the periphery of continental Europe. The book also explores the way Russia absorbed and participated in the European Enlightenment.

Spis treści

Part One: Russian Government and Society.
1. Tsar into Emperor:the title of Peter the Great.
2. Autocracy and Sovereignty.
3. Portrait of an Eighteenth-Century Russian Statesman: Prince Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn.
4. The Eighteenth-Century Origin of Russian Civil Rights.
Part Two: Social and Administrative Problems.
5. Penal Policy in the Age of Catherine II.
6. Catherine and the Serfs: A Reconstruction of Some Problems.
7. Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Russian Society.
8. The Foundation of the Russian Educational System by Catherine II.
Part Three: Catherine II, Russian society and the world of ideas.
9. Catherine the Great.
10. Catherine and the Philosophes.
11. Catherine and Montesquieu: Between M.M. Shcherbatovand Denis Diderot.
12. The Enlightenment in Russia.
13. The Role of Catherine II in the Literacy Life of Russia.
Index.

O autorze

Isabel De Madariaga