The Russian empire, 1450-1801 /
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 g...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford history of early modern Europe.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199280513 0199280517 |