This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today.
This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today.
Introduction Father of the Fatherland The Personality of the Reformer Victory at any Cost The Narva Confusion "Seek to overthrow the foe" Industrialization Petrine-Style "It's difficult for a man to know and direct everything sight unseen" On the Roads of War: From Narva to Poltava The Breakthrough: From Poltava to Hangö Birth of the Empire The Realization of Peter's State Ideal The Serf Economy Producing the All-Russian Subject People Reforming the Clerical Rank "The police is the soul of the citizenry" The Imperial Idea Heritage and Heirs "To whom shall I leave the planting described above?" Conclusion
Introduction Father of the Fatherland The Personality of the Reformer Victory at any Cost The Narva Confusion "Seek to overthrow the foe" Industrialization Petrine-Style "It's difficult for a man to know and direct everything sight unseen" On the Roads of War: From Narva to Poltava The Breakthrough: From Poltava to Hangö Birth of the Empire The Realization of Peter's State Ideal The Serf Economy Producing the All-Russian Subject People Reforming the Clerical Rank "The police is the soul of the citizenry" The Imperial Idea Heritage and Heirs "To whom shall I leave the planting described above?" Conclusion
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