The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

Description

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?

• Author: Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander
• Publisher: Routledge
• Published: 2015-02-24
• Pages: 338
• ISBN-13: 9781317454878