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Catherine the Great : a short history /

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An account of the events of Catherine's life and of the achievements of her reign. Topics include governmental, financial and administrative reforms and her foreign policy. Attention is paid to historical controversies over the interpretation of her policies and to the historiography on the per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Madariaga, Isabel de, 1919-2014
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2002.
Edition:[2nd ed].
Series:Yale Nota bene.
Subjects:
Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796.
Empresses > Russia > Biography.
Russia > History > Catherine II, 1762-1796.
Russia > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Catherine Seizes Power in the Russian Empire
  • 2. Russian Society in 1762
  • 3. Catherine's First Years
  • 4. First Turkish War
  • 5. Crisis of the 1770s
  • 6. Reform of Local Administration and of the Legal System
  • 7. Armed Neutrality and the Annexation of the Crimea
  • 8. Catherine's Influence on Russian Cultural Life
  • 9. Catherine's Educational Policy
  • 10. Catherine's Social Policy
  • 11. How Catherine Governed
  • 12. How the People Lived
  • 13. War with Turkey and Sweden, and the Destruction of Poland
  • 14. Catherine's Economic Policy
  • 15. Catherine and the French Revolution
  • 16. Catherine as Woman and Ruler.