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The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Title: The Russian Empire 1450-1801 / Nancy Shields Kollmann.
Author: Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-
Publication: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Description

xii, 497 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system.

Series Statement

Oxford History of Early Modern Europe

Uniform Title

Oxford history of early modern Europe.

Subject

Russia > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-3103

ISBN

9780199280513
0199280517

OCLC

969962873

Author

Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950- author.

Title

The Russian Empire 1450-1801 / Nancy Shields Kollmann.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford History of Early Modern Europe

Oxford history of early modern Europe.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-3103

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