Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Dixon |
| ISBN: | 0521371007 9780521371001 052137961X 9780521379618 |
| OCLC Number: | 40061361 |
| Description: | xvii, 267 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Modernisation theory and Russian history -- Modernisation theory -- Russian history, 1676-1825 -- Imperial great power -- Ambitions and achievements -- Military and naval reform -- The primacy of foreign policy -- The consequences of imperial expansion -- Finance and taxation -- Muscovite taxation -- War and financial modernisation, 1700-1762 -- War and financial modernisation, 1762-1825 -- The burden of taxation -- The political and social impact of taxation -- Society -- Social policy -- Social identities: the peasantry -- Social identities: the nobility -- Social mobility -- Social conflict -- Government and justice -- The court -- Central and local government -- Patrons, clients, and bureaucrats -- The church in government -- Justice -- Culture -- Education and literacy -- Hierarchies of culture -- Cosmopolitanism and national consciousness -- Centre and periphery -- Science and superstition -- Religion and secularisation -- Private and public, amateur and professional -- Ideology -- Tsar and state -- State and nation -- Church and state -- The economy -- Economic ideas and economic policy -- Population and natural resources -- Transport and technology -- Trade and commerce -- Agriculture and industry, town and country -- Economic growth. |
| Series Title: | New approaches to European history, 15. |
| Other Titles: | Modernization of Russia, 1676-1825 |
| Responsibility: | Simon Dixon. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation theory which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship between government, economy, and society. Following a chronological introduction, a series of thematic chapters emphasise the ways in which Russia's international ambitions as an emerging great power provoked administrative and fiscal reforms with wide-ranging (and often unanticipated) social consequences."--Jacket.
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "The modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825".
Be the first.
