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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199280517

ISBN-139780199280513

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Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRussian Empire 1450-1801

SubjectRussia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / General

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

AuthorNancy Shields Kollmann

Subject AreaHistory

SeriesOxford History of Early Modern Europe Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight34.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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Dewey Edition23

Reviews"[T]his masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian history--from the public to the specialists--by a scholar most intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship."--Orel Beilinson, Reviews in History, "Grounded upon an impressive list of renewed books and articles, Nancy Shields Kollmann offers here a wonderful synthesis of her long-standing contribution to the history of early modern Russia ... [an] excellent book" -- Alessandro Stanziani, Slavic Review"This book successfully places early modern Russia in a world and European context for both specialists and more casual readers....This is a detailed and nuanced argument that rejects both highly centralized despotism and Russification as conceptually helpful ways of understanding the organization and policies of the empire .[T]his is a major contribution to the field--an important synthesis of the state of the literature and most valuably, a broadening of debate about the nature of Russian imperialism."--Carol B. Stevens, The Russian Review"[T]his masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian history--from the public to the specialists--by a scholar most intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship."--Orel Beilinson, Reviews in History"This excellent book provides a fresh, detailed treatment of the construction, operation, and composition of the Russian Empire during the early modern period....[A]n ideal reference work and introduction to early modern Russian history that does justice to the complexity of Russia's vast territory and diverse population, while never losing sight of larger themes....Highly recommended."--CHOICE, "Grounded upon an impressive list of renewed books and articles, Nancy Shields Kollmann offers here a wonderful synthesis of her long-standing contribution to the history of early modern Russia ... [an] excellent book" -- Alessandro Stanziani, Slavic Review "This book successfully places early modern Russia in a world and European context for both specialists and more casual readers....This is a detailed and nuanced argument that rejects both highly centralized despotism and Russification as conceptually helpful ways of understanding the organization and policies of the empire .[T]his is a major contribution to the field--an important synthesis of the state of the literature and most valuably, a broadening of debate about the nature of Russian imperialism."--Carol B. Stevens, The Russian Review "[T]his masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian history--from the public to the specialists--by a scholar most intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship."--Orel Beilinson, Reviews in History "This excellent book provides a fresh, detailed treatment of the construction, operation, and composition of the Russian Empire during the early modern period....[A]n ideal reference work and introduction to early modern Russian history that does justice to the complexity of Russia's vast territory and diverse population, while never losing sight of larger themes....Highly recommended."--CHOICE, "[T]his masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian history--from the public to the specialists--by a scholar most intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship."--Orel Beilinson, Reviews in History "This excellent book provides a fresh, detailed treatment of the construction, operation, and composition of the Russian Empire during the early modern period....[A]n ideal reference work and introduction to early modern Russian history that does justice to the complexity of Russia's vast territory and diverse population, while never losing sight of larger themes....Highly recommended."--CHOICE, "This book successfully places early modern Russia in a world and European context for both specialists and more casual readers....This is a detailed and nuanced argument that rejects both highly centralized despotism and Russification as conceptually helpful ways of understanding the organization and policies of the empire .[T]his is a major contribution to the field--an important synthesis of the state of the literature and most valuably, a broadening of debate about the nature of Russian imperialism."--Carol B. Stevens, The Russian Review "[T]his masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian history--from the public to the specialists--by a scholar most intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship."--Orel Beilinson, Reviews in History "This excellent book provides a fresh, detailed treatment of the construction, operation, and composition of the Russian Empire during the early modern period....[A]n ideal reference work and introduction to early modern Russian history that does justice to the complexity of Russia's vast territory and diverse population, while never losing sight of larger themes....Highly recommended."--CHOICE

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Table Of ContentPrefaceIntroduction: The Russian Empire 1450-1801Prologue: The Chronological ArcPART I: ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE1. Land, People, and Global Context2. De Facto Empire: The Rise of Moscow3. Assembling Empire: The First Two Centuries4. Eighteenth-Century Expansion: Siberia and Steppe5. Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth CenturyPART II: THE MUSCOVITE EMPIRE THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY6. Broadcasting Legitimacy7. The State Wields its Power8. Trade, Tax, and Production9. Cooptation - Creating an Elite10. Rural Taxpayers - Peasants and Beyond11. Towns and Townsmen12. Varieties of OrthodoxyPART III: THE CENTURY OF EMPIRE: RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY13. Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center14. Army and Administration15. Fiscal Policy and Trade16. Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion17. Soslovie, Serfdom, and Society on the Move18. Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform19. Confessionalization in a Multiethnic Empire20. Maintaining Orthodoxy21. Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual LifeConclusion: Constructing and Envisioning Empire

SynopsisRussia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions., 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., 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.

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