The Reforms of Peter the Great
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The Reforms of Peter the Great

Progress Through Violence in Russia

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Reforms of Peter the Great

Progress Through Violence in Russia

About this book

This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?

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Index

Academy of Sciences, 223
Actuary, 153
Administration. See Bureaucracy; College system of administration; Government administration reforms.
Administrative territorial units. See Guberniias.
Admiralty Bureau, 80, 87, 88, 148
Admiralty College, 62, 147–48, 148–49, 285
Adrian, Patriarch, 203
Aksakov brothers, 6
Aksenov, A.I., 78, 79
Åland Islands, 138, 249, 250
Albania, 128
Alcohol. See Drinking and drunkenness.
Aleksei Mikhailovich, Tsar of Russia, 13, 58, 66, 204, 206
Aleksei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, 40, 246, 269–78, 285
death of, 275–78
Alphabet, fashioning of new, 26
Altmark truce (1629), 52
Altranstädt, Treaty of (1706), 105–6, 107
Ambassadorial Bureau, 73, 88
Amsterdam-Galei (frigate), 262
Anderson, M.S., 8
Anecdotes (Nartov), 35
Anna Ivanovna, 246, 253
Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, 248, 252, 268
Anne, Queen of England, 50, 107
Antichrist, 61, 208, 215
Apostol, Colonel, 117
Apraksin, Fedor Matveevich, Peter’s letters to, 37, 118, 122, 124, 126, 133–34, 136
Apraksin, Peter, 90, 97, 99
Architecture, St. Petersburg, 239, 240–42
Arkhangel'sk, 15, 77
Armenia, 259, 260
Armfelt, General, 136
Army
composition of officer corps, 191
maintenance of peacetime, 160–63
pre-P...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. The New Russian History
  8. Translator's Introduction
  9. Introduction
  10. Father of the Fatherland
  11. Victory at any Cost
  12. Birth of the Empire
  13. Heritage and Heirs
  14. Notes
  15. For Further Reading
  16. Index