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

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia
ISBN-10
1317454871
ISBN-13
9781317454878
Category
Social Science
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2015-02-24
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

Description

This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?

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