Peter The Great Transforms Russia
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Peter The Great Transforms Russia
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Author : James Cracraft
language : en
Publisher: D. C. Heath and Company
Release Date : 1991
Peter The Great Transforms Russia written by James Cracraft and has been published by D. C. Heath and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Featuring Western and Soviet historians, the diverse essays gathered here illuminate the main developments, accomplishments, and failures of Peter's reign in Russia, reopening the troubling debates which color any assessment of the Petrine achievement.
The Revolution Of Peter The Great
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Author : James CRACRAFT
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Revolution Of Peter The Great written by James CRACRAFT and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era.
Peter The Great His Life And World
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Author : Robert K. Massie
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-22
Peter The Great His Life And World written by Robert K. Massie and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—The New York Times Book Review Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. Robert K. Massie delves deep into his life, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy into a legend—including his “incognito” travels in Europe, his unquenchable curiosity about Western ways, his obsession with the sea and establishment of the stupendous Russian navy, his creation of an unbeatable army, his transformation of Russia, and his relationships with those he loved most: Catherine, the robust yet gentle peasant, his loving mistress, wife, and successor; and Menshikov, the charming, bold, unscrupulous prince who rose to wealth and power through Peter’s friendship. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life.
The Reforms Of Peter The Great
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Author : Evgenii V. Anisimov
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-24
The Reforms Of Peter The Great written by Evgenii V. Anisimov and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Social Science categories.
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?
Peter The Great Changes Russia
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Author : Marc Raeff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Peter The Great Changes Russia written by Marc Raeff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Russia categories.
The Reforms Of Peter The Great
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Author : Evgenii V. Anisimov
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-24
The Reforms Of Peter The Great written by Evgenii V. Anisimov and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Social Science categories.
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?
Peter The Great
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Author : John Swift
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Education
Release Date : 2000
Peter The Great written by John Swift and has been published by Hodder Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Charting the reign of one of Russia's most colourful and controversial monarchs, this text discusses how far Peter the Great was responsible for making Russia a major European power and asks to what extent he personally transformed Russia into a modern, economically powerful, absolutist state.
The Petrine Revolution In Russian Culture
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Author : James Cracraft
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Petrine Revolution In Russian Culture written by James Cracraft and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture--a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. The author of seminal works on visual culture in the Petrine era, Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture. The forceful institutionalization of the tsar's reforms--the establishment of a navy, modernization of the army, restructuring of the government, introduction of new arts and sciences--had an enormous impact on language. Cracraft details the transmission to Russia of contemporary European naval, military, bureaucratic, legal, scientific, and literary norms and their corresponding lexical and other linguistic effects. This crucial first stage in the development of a "modern" verbal culture in Russia saw the translation and publication of a wholly unprecedented number of textbooks and treatises; the establishment of new printing presses and the introduction of a new alphabet; the compilation, for the first time, of grammars and dictionaries of Russian; and the initial standardization, in consequence, of the modern Russian literary language. Peter's creation of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the chief agency advancing these reforms, is also highlighted. In the conclusion to his masterwork, Cracraft deftly pulls together the Petrine reforms in verbal and visual culture to portray a revolution that would have dramatic consequences for Russia, and for the world.
The Image Of Peter The Great In Russian History And Thought
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Author : Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992
The Image Of Peter The Great In Russian History And Thought written by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The image of Peter the Great casts a long shadow in modern Russian thought and culture. As important to modern Russia as the French Revolution is to France and the Reformation is to Germany, the image of this militaristic ruler, founder of St Petersburg, and czar of all Russia from 1689-1725 has been central to Russian history, literature, and art since the early 1700s.; Riasanovsky, one of the foremost historians of Russia, traces the development of this image from 1700 to the present. Drawing examples from Russian historical accounts, literature, folklore, and the arts, he shows how the use of the image of Peter has reflected the changing cultural and political values of the Russian people.
A Concise History Of Russia
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Author : Paul Bushkovitch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-05
A Concise History Of Russia written by Paul Bushkovitch and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with History categories.
Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.