Enlightened metropolis : constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 /
Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in modern European history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Through systematic comparisons with cities in Western Europe Alexander Martin situates Moscow in the context of the emergence of urban bourgeois civilization in the West, and helps the reader understand both how Moscow became a modern city and why this successful modernization paradoxically helped delegitimize the tsarist regime. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-333) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191640704 0191640700 9780191750649 0191750646 |