Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" Tall. Book has 328 pages with a few illustrations. DJ has chip on front that has been repaired with tape. First book in The New Russian History series. This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goa l of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself?

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Title

The Reforms of Peter the Great : Progress Through Coercion in Russia (New Russian History Ser.)

Publisher

Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Incorporated, 1993, Armonk, NY

Publication Date

1993

Language

English

ISBN 10

1563240475

ISBN 13

9781563240478

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Russian History

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This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?

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Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

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