The Cambridge History Of Russia Volume II. Imperial Russia, 1689–1917

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689–1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government’s policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionary movement. The volume’s seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, and on Russia’s evolution as a great power, make it the most detailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in a cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period. Cover Page About the Book THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF RUSSIA Title: THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF RUSSIA, Volume II: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 ISBN 0521815290 Contents (with page links) part i EMPIRE part ii CULTURE, IDEAS, IDENTITTIES part iii NON-RUSSIAN NATIONALITIES part iv RUSSIAN SOCIETY, LAW AND ECONOMY part v GOVERNMENT part vi FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ARMED FORCES part vii REFORM, WAR AND REVOLUTION 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 EMPIRE 1 Russia as empire and periphery 2 Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy Nationalities before Peter Expansion in the eighteenth century and nationality Conquest of the Baltic under Peter Ukraine under Catherine Partitions of Poland Jewish question Policy under Alexander I and Nicholas I Napoleonic period and Congress of Vienna Nicholas I Expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia After 1863: the birth of ‘Russification’ Polish insurrection of 1863 Birth of Russification 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 CULTURE, IDEAS, IDENTITIES 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 I (1801–1825) and Nicholas I (1825–1855) 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 TheWesterniser–Slavophile Debate 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 NON-RUSSIAN NATIONALITIES 8 Ukrainians and Poles 9 The Jews The pre-partition period Early encounters Into the whirlwind 10 Islam in the Russian Empire RUSSIAN SOCIETY, LAW AND ECONOMY 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 GOVERNMENT 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 22 State finances FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ARMED FORCES 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 REFORM, WAR AND REVOLUTION 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 Index (with page links) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q,R S T U V W X Y Z The Plates

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689–1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government's policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionary movement. The volume's seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, and on Russia's evolution as a great power, make it the most detailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period.

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689 1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government's policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionary movement. The volume's seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, and on Russia's evolution as a great power, make it the most detailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period. This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the successor states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Volume One encompasses developments before the reign of Peter I; volume two covers the 'imperial era'; and volume three continues the story through to the end of the 20th century v. 1. From early Rus' to 1689 - - v. 2. Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 v. 3 The twentieth century.