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The Reforms of Peter the Great (2015)

The Reforms of Peter the Great (2015)

JT Alexander, Evgenii V. Anisimov

Published: 2015, February 24
Authors: JT Alexander, Evgenii V. Anisimov
Publishers: Routledge
Pages: 338
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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?