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Contents:
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- 1 Historical Overviews
- ESSAYS Richard Pipes
- The Environment and Its Consequences N. S. Trubetzkoy
- The Legacy of Genghis Khan
- Thomas G. Masaryk
- Russia and Europe
- 2 The Muscovite Heritage
- ESSAYS Nancy Shields Kollman
- Muscovite Patrimonialism Richard Hellie
- Enserfment in Muscovite Russia
- DOCUMENTS
- Enserfing the Russian Peasantry: The
- Ulozhenie (Chapter 11) of
- Archpriest Avvakum Describes His Struggle
- for the Lord, ca.
- PART II THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 3 The Era of Peter the Great
- ESSAYS
- E. V. Anisimov
- Peter I: Birth of the Empire
- James Cracraft
- Kliuchevsky on Peter the Great
- DOCUMENTS
- Petrine Reform Legislation
- Peter Changes the Calendar, 1699
- Peter's Decree on Wearing German Clothes,
- Peter's Decree on Shaving, 1705
- Peter's Decree on Entail, 1714
- Manifesto Depriving Tsarevich Aleksei of
- the Throne,
- Peter's Decree on the Purchase of Peasant
- Villages for Factories,
- Decree on the Sale of Serfs, 1721
- Peter Accepts the Imperial Title, 1721
- The Table of Ranks, 1722
- Statute on the Succession to the Throne,
- Peter Establishes the College of
- Manufactures,
- Peter Founds an Academy of Arts and
- Sciences,
- Reforming the Church
- Manifesto Creating the Holy Synod, 1721
- Oath of the Holy Synod
- The Ecclesiastical Regulation, Part I
- Feofan Prokopovich Eulogizes Peter the
- Great,
- 4 From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great
- ESSAYS
- E. V. Anisimov
- Empire of the Nobility Nadejda Gorodetzky
- St. Tikhon Zadonsky
- DOCUMENTS
- Peter III's Manifesto Emancipating the
- Russian Nobility,
- M. M. Shcherbatov Laments Corruption at
- Court,
- 5 The Age of Catherine
- ESSAYS
- Isabel de Madariaga
- Catherine as Woman and Ruler
- Marc Raeff
- Pugachev's Rebellion
- DOCUMENTS
- Catherine Instructs the Legislative
- Commission,
- Catherine's Charter to the Nobility, 1785
- Alexander Radishchev Excoriates Russia's
- Social System,
- 6 Empire-Building: The Eighteenth Century
- ESSAYS
- James Cracraft
- Empire Versus Nation: Russian Political
- Theory under Peter
- Marc Raeff
- Imperial Policies of Catherine II
- DOCUMENTS
- P. P. Shafirov Justifies the Empire, 1717
- M. V. Lomonosov Extolls Russian
- Greatness,
- Russia Annexes Crimea
- Potemkin's Memorandum to Catherine II
- Urging Annexation,
- Catherine's Manifesto Proclaiming the
- Annexation,
- PART III THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 7 Apogee of Empire
- ESSAYS
- Marc Raeff
- The "Constitutionalism" of Alexander I
- Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
- The Supreme Commander: Nicholas I
- DOCUMENTS
- N. M. Karamzin Defends the Established
- Order,
- The Marquis de Custine is Dazzled by the
- Imperial Court,
- August von Haxthausen Discovers the
- Russian Peasant Commune,
- 8 Emancipation and the Great Reforms
- ESSAYS Francis William Wcislo
- The Dilemmas of Emancipation Richard S. Wortman
- Towards the Rule of Law
- DOCUMENTS
- Alexander Herzen Defends the "Hidden
- Russia,"
- Alexander II's Manifesto Emancipating the
- Serfs,
- Donald Mackenzie Wallace Explains the Mir
- and the Zemstvo,
- 9 Reaction and Counter-Reform ESSAYS
- Richard Pipes
- Towards the Police State Thomas S. Pearson
- The Failure of Reform
- DOCUMENTS
- Vera Figner Defends Assassination in the
- Name of the People,
- Manifesto of Alexander III Affirming
- Autocracy,
- Constantine Pobedonostsev Attacks
- Democracy,
- 10 Empire-Building: The Nineteenth Century
- ESSAYS Andreas Kappeler
- The Multi-Ethnic Empire
- Edward C. Thaden
- Russification
- DOCUMENTS
- The Gorchakov Circular on Russia's
- Mission in Central Asia,
- James Bryce Describes "Wonderfully
- Picturesque" Tiflis,
- S.D. Urusov Explains Russian
- Antisemitism,
- PART IV CONCLUSION
- 11 Industrialization
- ESSAYS Arcadius Kahan
- The Government's Role
- Victoria E. Bonnell
- The Labor Force
- DOCUMENTS
- V.I. Gurko Recalls Sergei Witte's Years
- in Power,
- F. P. Pavlov Depicts Life in a Textile
- Mill, 1890s
- 12 Late Imperial Society
- ESSAYS
- Gary M. Hamburg
- The Nobility in Crisis Alfred J. Rieber
- The Fragmented "Middle Ranks"
- Rose L. Glickman
- Women Workers
- DOCUMENTS
- Michael Ignatieff Describes Life Among
- the High Nobility, 1880s-1890s
- S. I. Kanatchikov Recounts His Adventures
- as a Peasant-Worker-Activist,
- 13 Opposition to the Imperial Regime
- ESSAYS Terence Emmons
- The Constitutional Movement Richard Stites
- The Feminist Movement
- DOCUMENTS
- The October Manifesto of Nicholas II, 1905
- Father George Gapon Describes Bloody
- Sunday,
- V. I. Lenin Exhorts the Proletariat to
- Revolution,
- Katerina Breshkovskaia Evokes the
- Struggle to Liberate the Peasantry,
- 14 Crisis and Collapse
- ESSAYS
- Leonard Schapiro
- Stolypin Hans Rogger
- The Last Act
- DOCUMENTS
- A. I. Guchkov Warns of Impending
- Disaster,
- Nicolas de Basily Recounts the Abdication
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