Author: Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199280517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century, distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many peoples and cultures.
The Russian Empire 1450-1801
Author: Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199280517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century, distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many peoples and cultures.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199280517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century, distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many peoples and cultures.
The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689
Author: Maureen Perrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia and the Origin of the Russian State
Author: Vilhelm Thomsen
Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A History of Russia: Kievan Russia
Author: George Vernadsky
Publisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A History of Russia
Author: Vasiliĭ Osipovich Kl~inotuchevskiĭ
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia and the Origin of the Russian State
Author: Vilhelm Thomsen
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia and the Origin of the Russian State
Author: Vilhelm Thomsen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385568102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385568102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Russia ancient and modern
Kievan Russia
Author: George Vernadsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300016475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Looks at the history of Russia during the Kievan period, from 862 to 1237.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300016475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Looks at the history of Russia during the Kievan period, from 862 to 1237.
Ancient Russia
Author: Gueorgui Vladimirovitch Vernadski
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 425
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