- •Plates
- •Maps
- •Notes on contributors
- •Acknowledgements
- •Note on the text
- •Abbreviations in notes and bibliography
- •archive collections and volumes of laws
- •journals
- •other abbreviations
- •Chronology
- •Introduction
- •1 Russia as empire and periphery
- •2 Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy
- •Nationalities before Peter
- •Ukraine under Catherine
- •Partitions of Poland
- •Jewish question
- •Nicholas I
- •Expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia
- •Baltic Provinces and Finland
- •Central Asia and Muslims
- •The Caucasus
- •The 1905 Revolution and after
- •First World War
- •3 Geographies of imperial identity
- •Introduction
- •Russia as a European empire
- •Russia as an anti-European empire
- •Russia as a national empire
- •4 Russian culture in the eighteenth century
- •Russia and the West: ‘catching up’
- •The reign of Peter I (1682–1725)
- •From Catherine I to Peter III: 1725–1762
- •Catherine the Great: 1762–1796
- •Conclusion
- •5 Russian culture: 1801–1917
- •Russian culture comes of age
- •Russian culture under Alexander II (1855–1881)
- •Russian culture under Alexander III (1881–1894)
- •Russian Culture Under Nicholas II (1894–1917)
- •6 Russian political thought, 1700–1917
- •From Muscovy to the Early Enlightenment: the problem of resistance to ungodly rulers
- •Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment: civic virtue, absolutism and liberty
- •In the French Revolution’s shadow: conservatism, constitutionalism and republicanism
- •National identity, representative government and the market
- •7 Russia and the legacy of 1812
- •Russian culture and society before 1812
- •The 1812 war and Russian nationalism
- •The war and Russian political culture
- •1812 and the problem of social stability
- •The legacy of the war
- •8 Ukrainians and Poles
- •9 The Jews
- •The pre-partition period
- •Early encounters
- •Into the whirlwind
- •10 Islam in the Russian Empire
- •11 The elites
- •12 The groups between: raznochintsy, intelligentsia, professionals
- •13 Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century: portrait of a city
- •Topography
- •Rhythms
- •People
- •Administration and institutions
- •Civic and cultural life
- •14 Russian Orthodoxy: Church, people and politics in Imperial Russia
- •Institutionalising Orthodoxy
- •The clergy
- •Episcopate
- •Monastic (‘black’) clergy
- •Secular (‘white’) clergy
- •Believers
- •Worldly teachings: from ‘reciprocity’ to social Orthodoxy
- •Orthodoxy in the Russian prerevolution
- •15 Women, the family and public life
- •The Petrine revolution and its consequences
- •Outside the circle of privilege
- •The reform era
- •1905 and after
- •16 Gender and the legal order in Imperial Russia
- •Noblewomen, inheritance, and the control of property
- •Gender conventions and the law of property in the eighteenth century
- •Transactions between husband and wife
- •Unlimited obedience: women and family law
- •Gender in criminal law
- •Conclusion
- •17 Law, the judicial system and the legal profession
- •Reform
- •The reformed judicial system and the peasants
- •Justice and empire
- •The reform of the reform
- •The justice system as a substitute constitution
- •18 Peasants and agriculture
- •19 The Russian economy and banking system
- •Introduction
- •The Catherine system
- •The era of Great Reforms
- •The policy of forced industrial development
- •Financial and commercial policy at the beginning of the twentieth century
- •Conclusion
- •20 Central government
- •Introduction
- •Subordinate organs (podchinennye organy)
- •Ministerial government
- •Supreme organs (Verkhovnye organy)
- •Autocrat and autocracy
- •Post 1905
- •Modernisation from above
- •21 Provincial and local government
- •Introduction
- •The Centre and the provinces
- •The operation of local administration
- •Corporate institutions
- •‘All-estate’ institutions
- •A local bureaucracy?
- •Epilogue
- •23 Peter the Great and the Northern War
- •24 Russian foreign policy, 1725–1815
- •Era of palace revolutions
- •Catherine II
- •The metamorphosis of the 1790s
- •Alexander I
- •Conclusion
- •25 The imperial army
- •Understanding Russian military success, 1700–1825
- •Accounting for Russian military failure, 1854–1917
- •Conclusion: the World War
- •26 Russian foreign policy: 1815–1917
- •From Holy Alliance to Crimean isolation
- •Recueillement
- •Decline and fall
- •The character of tsarist diplomacy
- •27 The navy in 1900: imperialism, technology and class war
- •28 The reign of Alexander II: a watershed?
- •The reasons and preconditions for the abolition of serfdom
- •The programme and conception of the reformers, the legislation of 19 February 1861 and the other Great Reforms
- •Legislation and life: the fate of the Great Reforms and the fate of the reformers
- •29 Russian workers and revolution
- •30 Police and revolutionaries
- •31 War and revolution, 1914–1917
- •The proximate causes of February 1917
- •Relative economic backwardness as a cause?
- •The Petrograd garrison and its mutiny
- •The army command and the February Revolution
- •The formation of the Progressive Bloc and the Provisional Government
- •Bibliography
Abbreviations in notes and bibliography
archive collections and volumes of laws
GARF |
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiisko Federatsii (State Archive of the |
|
Russian Federation) |
GIAgM |
Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv gorod Moskvy (Moscow |
|
State Historical Archive) |
OR RGB |
Otdel rukopisei: Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka |
|
(Manuscript section: Russian State Library) |
OPI GIM |
Otdel pis’mennikh istochnikov: gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii |
|
muzei (Manuscript section: State Historical Museum) |
PSZ |
Pol’noe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii (Complete Collection of |
|
Laws of the Russian Empire) |
RGADA |
Russkii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov (Russian State |
|
Archive of Ancient Acts) |
RGAVMF |
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv voenno-morskogo flota |
|
(Russian State Naval Archive) |
RGIA |
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv (Russian State |
|
Historical Archive) |
RGVIA |
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv (Russian |
|
State Military-Historical Archive) |
SZ |
Svod zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii (Code of Laws of the Russian |
|
Empire) |
|
journals |
AHR |
American Historical Review |
CASS |
Canadian American Slavic Studies |
CMRS |
Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietique |
IZ |
Istoricheskie zapiski |
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List of abbreviations in notes and bibliography |
JfGO |
Jahrbucher¨ fur Geschichte Osteuropas |
JMH |
Journal of Modern History |
JSH |
Journal of Social History |
KA |
Krasnyi arkhiv |
RH |
Russian History |
RR |
Russian Review |
SEER |
Slavonic and East European Review |
SR |
Slavic Review |
VI |
Voprosy istorii |
ZGUP |
Zhurnal grazhdanskogo ugolovnogo prava |
ZMI |
Zhurnal Ministerstva Iustitsii |
|
other abbreviations |
AN |
Akademiia nauk |
ch. |
chast’ (part) |
d.delo (file)
ed. khr. |
edinitsa khraneniia (storage unit) |
Izd. |
Izdatel’stvo |
l. / ll. |
list/list’ia (folio/s) |
LGU |
Leningrad State University |
MGU |
Moscow State University |
ob. |
oboroto (verso) |
op. |
opis’ (inventory) |
otd. |
otdel (section) |
SGECR |
Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia |
SpbU |
St Petersburg State University |
SSSR |
USSR |
st. |
stat’ia (article) |
Tip. |
Tipografiia |
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