Imperial Russian Foreign Policy (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052144229X ISBN 13: 9780521442299

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book provides an introduction suitable for both specialist and non-specialist to the principal traditions, objectives, conditions, and instruments of Russian foreign policy, 1700-1917, through the presentation of new research. It is both the first cooperative effort in the subject by both Russian and Western historians and the first to be consciously representative of the spirit of glasnost and a post-Cold War mentality. It is based to a large extent on previously inaccessible Russian manuscript source materials, and it contains the only serious scholarly surveys of both the historiography and the bibliography of the subject.

About this title

Book Description:

With contributions from both Russia and the West, this new book aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicion and fear, that of Russian foreign policy. The book claims that the tsar was directly responsible for the formulation of most foreign policy and reveals the complex of motives behind his decisions.

Review:

"This is an impressive collection of papers..." Journal of Modern History

"...inspired by genuine scholarly interest in the subject....it provides additional evidence of a broadening of the range of Russian historiography." Richard Pipes, Times Literary Supplement

"...an excellent collection that offers a number of new approaches to old problems. Utilizing traditional sources and new materials, its contributors have helped reinvigorate the study of Russian foreign affairs during the imperial era. The Wilson Center should be commended for sponsoring the initial conference and Cambridge University Press should be congratulated for publishing this important addition to our evolving knowledge of Russian foreign policy." William Richardson, Slavic Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 052144229X
• ISBN 13: 9780521442299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 476
• Editor: Ragsdale Hugh