Paul Bushkovitch

Peter the Great (eBook, PDF)

The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725

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Produktbeschreibung

A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals. After the early victory of Peter's boyar supporters in the 1690s, Peter turned against them and tried to rule through favourites - an experiment which ended in the establishment of a decentralized 'aristocratic' administration, followed by an equally aristocratic Senate in 1711. The aristocrats' hegemony came to an end in the wake of the affair of Peter's son, Tsarevich Aleksei, in 1718. After that moment Peter ruled through a complex group of favourites, a few aristocrats and appointees promoted through merit, and carried out his most long-lasting reforms. The outcome was a new balance of power at the centre and a new, European, conception of politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511028755
• Artikelnr.: 38184030

Autorenporträt

Paul Bushkovitch has been Professor of History at Yale University since 1992, having taught there since 1975. His books include The Merchants of Moscow, 1580¿1650 (Cambridge, 1980) and Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue: court politics and reform; 1. Tsar and boyars: structures and values; 2. The ascendancy of Artamon Matveev, 1671
6; 3. The reign of Tsar Fyodor, 1676
82; 4. The regency of Sofia, 1682
9; 5. Peter in power, 1689
99; 6. Peter and the favourites: Golovin and Menshikov, 1699
1706; 7. Poltava and the new gubernias, 1707
9; 8. The Senate and the eclipse of Menshikov, 1709
15; 9. The affair of the tsarevich, 1715
17; 10. The end of Aleksei Petrovich, 1718; Epilogue and conclusion, 1718
25; Bibliography; Index.