ISBN:
9780199280513
,
0199280517
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 497 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Oxford history of early modern Europe
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950 - The Russian Empire 1450-1801
DDC:
947
Keywords:
Russia History
;
Russia History
;
Russland
;
Imperialismus
;
Staatsgebiet
;
Ausdehnung
;
Geschichte 1450-1801
Abstract:
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system
Note:
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