Author: Jerome Blum
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691007649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Study of the relationship between lord and peasant from the 9th to the 19th centuries, told against a background of Russian political and economic evolution.
Lord and Peasant in Russia
Author: Jerome Blum
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691007649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Study of the relationship between lord and peasant from the 9th to the 19th centuries, told against a background of Russian political and economic evolution.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691007649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Study of the relationship between lord and peasant from the 9th to the 19th centuries, told against a background of Russian political and economic evolution.
Historical Writing of Early Rus (c. 1000–c. 1400) in a Comparative Perspective
Author: Timofey V. Guimon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004335595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This book discusses the emergence, forms, composition, content, and the functions of historical writing in Rus and sets the material in a comparative context.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004335595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This book discusses the emergence, forms, composition, content, and the functions of historical writing in Rus and sets the material in a comparative context.
Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914
Author: Peter Gatrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466196
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book provides an economic historian's perspective on major questions that confront all students of Russian history: how stable were the economic and administrative structures of late-imperial Russia, and how well prepared was Russia for war in 1914? The decade following the Russo-Japanese War witnessed profound changes in the political system and in the industrial economy. The regime faced challenges to its authority from industrialists, caught in the throes of recession, and from parliamentary critics of tsarist administration. Peter Gatrell provides a comprehensive account of the attempts made by government and business to confront these challenges, examining the organisation and performance of a key industry and showing how decisions were reached about the allocation of resources, and the far-reaching consequences these decisions entailed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466196
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book provides an economic historian's perspective on major questions that confront all students of Russian history: how stable were the economic and administrative structures of late-imperial Russia, and how well prepared was Russia for war in 1914? The decade following the Russo-Japanese War witnessed profound changes in the political system and in the industrial economy. The regime faced challenges to its authority from industrialists, caught in the throes of recession, and from parliamentary critics of tsarist administration. Peter Gatrell provides a comprehensive account of the attempts made by government and business to confront these challenges, examining the organisation and performance of a key industry and showing how decisions were reached about the allocation of resources, and the far-reaching consequences these decisions entailed.
Ivan the Terrible
Author: Isabel de Madariaga
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300143761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
“This significant biography of the 16th-century Russian czar…is likely to become the definitive work on Ivan for some time” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One of the most important figures in Russian history, Ivan IV Vasilyevich has remained among the most neglected. The country’s first Tsar, he is notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son. In Ivan the Terrible, Russian historian Isabel de Madariaga presents the first comprehensive biography of Ivan from birth to death, shedding light on his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality. Situating Ivan within the Russian political developments of the sixteenth century, de Madariaga also offers revealing comparisons with English, Spanish, and other European courts of the time. The biography includes a new account of the role of astrology and magic at Ivan’s court and provides fresh insights into his foreign policy. Addressing the controversies that have paralyzed western scholarship as well as the challenges of authentication—since much of Ivan’s archive was destroyed by fire in 1626—de Madariaga seeks to present Russia as viewed from within Russia rather than from abroad. The result is an enlightening work that captures the full tragedy of Ivan’s reign.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300143761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
“This significant biography of the 16th-century Russian czar…is likely to become the definitive work on Ivan for some time” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One of the most important figures in Russian history, Ivan IV Vasilyevich has remained among the most neglected. The country’s first Tsar, he is notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son. In Ivan the Terrible, Russian historian Isabel de Madariaga presents the first comprehensive biography of Ivan from birth to death, shedding light on his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality. Situating Ivan within the Russian political developments of the sixteenth century, de Madariaga also offers revealing comparisons with English, Spanish, and other European courts of the time. The biography includes a new account of the role of astrology and magic at Ivan’s court and provides fresh insights into his foreign policy. Addressing the controversies that have paralyzed western scholarship as well as the challenges of authentication—since much of Ivan’s archive was destroyed by fire in 1626—de Madariaga seeks to present Russia as viewed from within Russia rather than from abroad. The result is an enlightening work that captures the full tragedy of Ivan’s reign.
Chernyshevskii: the Man and the Journalist
Author: William F. Woehrlin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674113855
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English is a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674113855
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English is a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.
Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr
Author: Chimen Abramsky
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349017256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349017256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Patrons of Enlightenment
Author: Colum Leckey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611493420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work--the St. Petersburg aristocrats and academics who established it in the 1760s, the budding intelligentsia, Catherine the Great and her court, its correspondents in Western Europe and the Russian provinces, and the wider Russian public.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611493420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work--the St. Petersburg aristocrats and academics who established it in the 1760s, the budding intelligentsia, Catherine the Great and her court, its correspondents in Western Europe and the Russian provinces, and the wider Russian public.
A History of Russian Economic Thought
Author: John M. Letiche
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318692
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318692
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia
Author: Nancy Kollmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139577018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139577018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice.
Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century
Author: J. T. Kotilaine
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900413896X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This work is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's foreign trade flows and economic growth in the seventeenth century. By demonstrating the growing openness of the economy, it reveals a key element in Russia's rise to great power status.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900413896X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This work is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's foreign trade flows and economic growth in the seventeenth century. By demonstrating the growing openness of the economy, it reveals a key element in Russia's rise to great power status.