| Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bushkovitch, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521030676 ISBN-13: 9780521030670 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: This book is a history of Russian politics during a fifty-year period that saw the transformation of Russia into a European monarchy by Peter the Great. Bushkovitch demonstrates that the interaction of the tsar and the ruling elite was at the core of Russian politics as Peter managed to largely master the contentious elite by a series of compromises, ultimately toward one that favored new men without excluding the aristocrats entirely. The outcome was a new balance of power at the center, and a new Europeanized culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001019093 |
| Lexile Measure: 1490 |
| Series: New Studies in European History |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 500 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bushkovitch, Paul: - Paul Bushkovitch has been Professor of History at Yale University since 1992, having taught there since 1975. His books include The Merchants of Moscow, 1580-1650 (Cambridge, 1980) and Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992). |