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Russia : people and empire, 1552-1917
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Russia : people and empire, 1552-1917

Author: Geoffrey A Hosking
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Discusses the sixteenth century roots of the lack of a unified Russian identity, the division between the gentry and the peasantry, and the widening gap in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which led to revolution and continues to affect Russia today.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Geoffrey A Hosking
ISBN: 067478118X 9780674781184 0674781198 9780674781191
OCLC Number: 36407712
Description: xxviii, 548 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: The Russian empire : how and why --
State-building. The first crises of empire --
The secular state of Peter the Great --
Assimilating Peter's heritage --
The apogee of the secular state --
Social classes, religion and culture in Imperial Russia. The nobility --
The army --
The peasantry --
The Orthodox church --
Towns and the missing Bourgeoisie --
The birth of the Intelligentsia --
Literature as 'Nation-Builder' Imperial Russia - under pressure. The Reforms of Alexander II --
Russian Socialism --
Russification --
The Revolution Of 1905-7 --
The Duma Monarchy --
The Revolution Of 1917
Responsibility: Geoffrey Hosking.
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Abstract:

Discusses the sixteenth century roots of the lack of a unified Russian identity, the division between the gentry and the peasantry, and the widening gap in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which led to revolution and continues to affect Russia today.

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