Vasili O. Kliuchevsky, Marshall S. Shatz

A Course in Russian History

The Time of Catherine the Great

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this excerpt from his five-volume "Course", Kliuchevsky provides a description of Russian court life in the 18th century, a narrative of the coup d'etat that brought Catherine II to power, a portrait of the empress herself, and an analysis of her foreign conquests and her internal initiatives.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781563245268
• ISBN-10: 1563245264
• Artikelnr.: 22359962

Autorenporträt

>Marshall S. Shatz is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He is the author of Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective (1980) and Jan Waclaw Machajski: A Radical Critic of the Russian Intelligentsia and Socialism (1989). He has also edited and translated a number of works on Russian intellectual history, including (with Judith E. Zimmerman) Vekhi (Landmarks), published by M.E. Sharpe in 1994.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Russian State in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth and Peter III
Chapter 2 The Coup d'État of June 28, 1762
Chapter 3 Catherine II: Upbringing and Character
Chapter 4 Foreign Policy
Chapter 5 Domestic Policy
Chapter 6 The Commission of 1767
Chapter 7 Reform of Provincial Government
Chapter 8 Serfdom
Chapter 9 The Gentry and the Impact of Western Culture