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Author Dixon, Simon (Simon M.)

Title The modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825 / Simon Dixon.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 267 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New approaches to European history
New approaches to European history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Modernisation theory and Russian history -- Modernisation theory -- Russian history, 1676-1825 -- Imperial great power -- Ambitions and achievements -- Military and naval reform -- Primacy of foreign policy -- Consequences of imperial expansion -- Finance and taxation -- Muscovite taxation -- War and financial modernisation, 1700-1762 -- War and financial modernisation, 1762-1825 -- Burden of taxation -- Political and social impact of taxation -- Society -- Social policy -- Social identities: the peasantry -- Social identities: the nobility -- Social mobility -- Social conflict -- Government and justice -- Court -- Central and local government -- Patrons, clients, and bureaucrats -- Church in government -- Justice -- Culture -- Education and literacy -- Hierarchies of culture -- Cosmopolitanism and national consciousness -- Centre and periphery -- Science and superstition -- Religion and secularisation -- Private and public, amateur and professional -- Ideology -- Tsar and state -- State and nation -- Church and state -- Economy -- Economic ideas and economic policy -- Population and natural resources -- Transport and technology -- Trade and commerce -- Agriculture and industry, town and country -- Economic growth.
Summary "This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation theory which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship between government, economy, and society. Following a chronological introduction, a series of thematic chapters emphasise the ways in which Russia's international ambitions as an emerging great power provoked administrative and fiscal reforms with wide-ranging (and often unanticipated) social consequences."--Jacket.
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Chronological Term 1613-1917
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Modernization of Russia, 1676-1825
Other Form: Print version: Dixon, Simon (Simon M.). Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521371007 (DLC) 98046739 (OCoLC)40061361
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