Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia : Collected Essays

De Madariaga, Isabel

Longman Pub Group（1998/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780582322561
• DDC分類 306.2094709033

Full Description

This is a collection of thirteen major essays, four never before published, by one of the most distinguished Western historians of 18th century Russia. These are not just random pieces but a broad and readable study which challenges the conventional view of imperial Russia as a semi-barbaric outsider on the periphery of continental Europe. Themes covered include Autocracy and Sovereignty, civil rights, serfdom, penal policy, freemasonry educational reform, and Catherine the Great.

Contents

Part 1 Russian government and societyPeter the Great; autocracy and sovereignty; portrait of an 18th-century Russian statesman - Prince Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn; the 18th-century origin of Russian civil rights. Part 2 Social and administrative problems: penal policy in the age of Catherine II; Catherine and the smurfs - a reconsideration of some problems; freemasonry in 18th-century Russian society; the foundation of the Russian educational system by Catherine II. Part 3 Catherine II, Russian society and the world of ideas: Catherine the Great; Catherine and the "Philosophes"; Catherine II and Montesquieu - between M.M. Shcherbatov and Denis Diderot; the Enlightenment in Russia; the role of Catherine II in the literary life of Russia.