The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 write by Hugh Seton-Watson. This book was released on 1988. The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series surveys the development of the Russian empire from the reign of Alexander I to the abdication of Nicholas II. The book centres on political and social history - the history of institutions, classes, political movements, and individuals. Foreign policy is considered from the Russian rather that the general European angle. Attention is also paid to the non-Russian peoples, who formed half the population of what was essentially a multi-national empire. The author's aim has been to see the period as it was, not - as in many modern works - in terms of what happened after it. The book draws on a large body of Russian documentary material, as well as on numerous Russian memoirs, contemporary comment by Russians and by foreign observers, and the important work of Soviet and foreign scholars. In its research, analysis, and interpretation, it is an exciting and original contribution to the study of pre-revolutionary Russia.
The Russian Empire 1801-1917
The Russian Empire 1801-1917 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Empire 1801-1917 write by Hugh Seton-Watson. This book was released on 1917. The Russian Empire 1801-1917 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Russian Empire 1450-1801
The Russian Empire 1450-1801 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Empire 1450-1801 write by Nancy Shields Kollmann. This book was released on 2017. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century, distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many peoples and cultures.
The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689
The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 write by Maureen Perrie. This book was released on 2006. The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe write by T. C. W. Blanning. This book was released on 2001-01-11. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.' -Irish Times
