By Simon Dixon
ISBN-10: 0521371007
ISBN-13: 9780521371001
This can be an analytical account of a colourful interval in Russian background, that's obtainable to undergraduates of ecu and Russian historical past, in addition to to the nonspecialist reader. principal to a dialogue that emphasizes Russia's position in Europe are the a lot misunderstood personalities of a few amazing rulers, comparable to Peter the good, Catherine the good and Alexander I. Their reigns are set within the context of wider advancements in social, fiscal, cultural and highbrow historical past that aid to account for Russia's emergence as a superb strength.
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Essays in Honor of Marc Raeff (DeKalb, IL, 1988). Modernisation theory and Russian history 25 To enter the `era of palace revolutions' is to stumble into a historiographical black hole. Nevertheless, D. L. Ransel, `The Government Crisis of 1730', in R. O. , Reform in Russia and the USSR (Urbana, IL, 1989), may be supplemented by the special edition of CASS, 12, 1 (1978), and I. de Madariaga, `Portrait of an EighteenthCentury Russian Statesman: Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn', SEER, 62 (1984), a penetrating study of the key participant.
As a youth, Peter had admired the Dutch technology demonstrated to him in Moscow's foreign quarter by Franz Timmerman, who encouraged his early fascination with boats. Once in Holland, however, the tsar became frustrated by an apprentice system that transferred its expertise over generations of trial and error when what he required was a science that could be readily, reliably, and repeatedly applied to his own immediate needs. This he discovered in England, where he spent time at Deptford dockyard.
35 Instead, Russia gained time for consolidation in which, far from being manoeuvred into reaction, even relatively weak rulers presided over the penetration of the Petrine system. Part of the explanation lies in his successors' need to enhance their legitimacy by emphasising 33 34 35 N. V. Kozlova, Pobegi krest 'ian v Rossii v pervoi treti XVIIIv. (Moscow, 1983), p. 145. The ®rst is among many ambitious parallels ventured by Ia. Gordin, Mezh rabstvom i svobodoi: 19 ianvaria±25 fevralia 1730 goda (St Petersburg, 1994); for the second, see, inter alia, the historical sociology by V.
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