The Reforms of Peter the Great
Progress Through Violence in Russia| By: | Evgenii V. Anisimov; J.T. Alexander |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781563240485 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781317454878 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1993 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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?