Contributor
Lieven, Dominic, 1952- editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description1 online resource (xxvii, 765 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Note:Introduction / Dominic Lieven -- Empire -- Russia as empire and periphery / Dominic Lieven -- Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy / Theodore R. Weeks -- Geographies of imperial identity / Mark Bassin -- Culture, ideas, identities -- Russian culture in the eighteenth century / Lindsey Hughes -- Russian culture: 1801-1917 / Rosamund Bartlett -- Russian political thought, 1700-1917 / Gary M. Hamburg -- Russia and the legacy of 1812 / Alexander M. Martin -- Non-Russian nationalities -- Ukrainians and Poles / Timothy Snyder -- The Jews / Benjamin Nathans -- Islam in the Russian Empire / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Russian society, law and economy -- The elites / Dominic Lieven -- The groups between: raznochintsy, intelligentsia, professionals / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter -- Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century: portrait of a city / Catherine Evtuhov -- Russian Orthodoxy: Church, people and politics in Imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze -- Women, the family and public life / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Gender and the legal order in Imperial Russia / Michelle Lamarche Marrese -- Law, the judicial system and the legal profession / Jorg Baberowski -- Peasants and agriculture / David Moon -- The Russian economy and banking system / Boris Ananich -- Government -- Central government / Zhand P. Shakibi -- Provincial and local government / Janet M. Hartley -- State finances / Peter Waldron -- Foreign policy and the armed forces -- Peter the Great and the Northern War / Paul Bushkovitch -- Russian foreign policy, 1725-1815 / Hugh Ragsdale -- The imperial army / William C. Fuller, Jr -- Russian foreign policy: 1815-1917 / David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye -- The navy in 1900: imperialism, technology and class war / Nikolai Afonin -- Reform, war and revolution -- The reign of Alexander II: a watershed? / Larisa Zakharova -- Russian workers and revolution / Reginald E. Zelnik -- Police and revolutionaries / Jonathan W. Daly -- War and revolution, 1914-1917 / Eric Lohr.
Note:The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government's policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionary movement. The volume's seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, and on Russia's evolution as a great power, make it the most detailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period.
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