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The Cambridge history of Russia. Vol. 2 Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 / edited by Dominic Lieven.

Other titles

Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
History of Russia

Published

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2006

Physical description

1 online resource (xxvii, 710 pages)

ISBN

9780511468285
0511468288
9781139055437
1139055437
9781139055437
9780521815291

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.
English.

Audience

specialized

Contents

Introduction / Dominic Lieven -- Empire -- Russia as empire and periphery / Dominic Lieven -- Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy / Theodore R. Weeks -- Geographies of imperial identity / Mark Bassin -- Culture, ideas, identities -- Russian culture in the eighteenth century / Lindsey Hughes -- Russian culture: 1801-1917 / Rosamund Bartlett -- Russian political thought, 1700-1917 / Gary M. Hamburg -- Russia and the legacy of 1812 / Alexander M. Martin -- Non-Russian nationalities -- Ukrainians and Poles / Timothy Snyder -- The Jews / Benjamin Nathans -- Islam in the Russian Empire / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Russian society, law and economy -- The elites / Dominic Lieven -- The groups between: raznochintsy, intelligentsia, professionals / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter -- Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century: portrait of a city / Catherine Evtuhov -- Russian Orthodoxy: Church, people and politics in Imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze -- Women, the family and public life / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Gender and the legal order in Imperial Russia / Michelle Lamarche Marrese -- Law, the judicial system and the legal profession / Jorg Baberowski -- Peasants and agriculture / David Moon -- The Russian economy and banking system / Boris Ananich -- Government -- Central government / Zhand P. Shakibi -- Provincial and local government / Janet M. Hartley -- State finances / Peter Waldron -- Foreign policy and the armed forces -- Peter the Great and the Northern War / Paul Bushkovitch -- Russian foreign policy, 1725-1815 / Hugh Ragsdale -- The imperial army / William C. Fuller, Jr -- Russian foreign policy: 1815-1917 / David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye -- The navy in 1900: imperialism, technology and class war / Nikolai Afonin -- Reform, war and revolution -- The reign of Alexander II: a watershed? / Larisa Zakharova -- Russian workers and revolution / Reginald E. Zelnik -- Police and revolutionaries / Jonathan W. Daly -- War and revolution, 1914-1917 / Eric Lohr.

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