The reforms of Peter the Great : progress through coercion in Russia
E. V. Anisimov, John T. Alexander (Translator, Writer of introduction)
This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today
Print Book, English, ©1993
M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y., ©1993