Revolutions and the making of the modern world : from Peter the Great to Karl Marx / James Cracraft ; edited by William Benton Whisenhunt.
| Author/creator |
Cracraft, James author. |
| Other author/creator | Whisenhunt, William Benton, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang, [2021] |
| Description | xvii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Essays. Selections |
| Contents | The revolution of Peter the Great -- Some dreams of Peter the Great -- Opposition to Peter the Great -- Empire versus nation : Russian political theory under Peter I -- St Petersburg -- Feofan Prokopovich -- The Petrine church reform revisited -- Church and revolution in Russia -- The Russian empire as cultural construct -- Money talks? A note on political stability in late imperial Russia -- Russia discovers America -- From the Russian past to the Soviet present -- Great Catherine -- The dilemma of orthodoxy in early modern Ukraine -- The specter of Marxism -- A Berlin for historians -- Implicit morality -- Faith in history -- History as philosophy. |
| Abstract | "Professor James Cracraft is an established specialist on early modern Russian history, particularly the era of Peter the Great (1682-1725), tsar and first Russian emperor. This volume gathers some of the many key articles and reviews published by him over the last forty years and more in a wide variety of scholarly venues, some of which are not readily accessible. They constitute in sum important contributions not only to Russian history broadly understood, but also to the study of history itself. The collection will include a preface by the editor and an introduction by the author, where he will sum up his decades of historical work and point to new avenues of needed research, all the while emphasizing that "history" properly understood does not exist somewhere on its own but is the creation, however imperfect, of professional historians (as "chemistry", say, is properly understood as the work, however imperfect, of professional chemists)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Cracraft, James. Revolutions and the making of the modern world New York : Peter Lang, [2021] 9781433185540 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021007534 |
| ISBN | 9781433185533 |
| ISBN | 1433185539 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | Mobipocket electronic book |
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