Russia in the age of the Enlightenment
Subtitle: essays for Isabel de Madariaga
By: edited by Roger Bartlett and Janet M. Hartley.
Contributors: Bartlett, Roger P., 1939-; Hartley, Janet M.; Madariaga, Isabel de, 1919-; University of London. School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe
Publisher: Macmillan in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Russia -- History -- 1689-1801.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marc Raeff; title: Russia as a European great power / H.M. Scott; title: Russian national consciousness and its development in the eighteenth century / Ilʹia Serman; title: The image of the eighteenth-century Russian author / W. Gareth Jones; title: Navigation and the modernisation of Petrine Russia: teachers, textbooks, terminology / W.F. Ryan; title: Favourites, favouritism and female rule in Russia, 1725-1796 / J.T. Alexander; title: F.G. Strube de Piermont and the origins of Russian legal history / W.E. Butler; title: The question of serfdom: Catherine II, the Russian debate and the view from the Baltic periphery (J.G. Eisen and G.H. Merkel) / Roger Bartlett; title: Philanthropy in the reign of Catherine the Great: aims and realities / Janet M. Hartley; title: Catherine the Great: views from the distaff side / Anthony Cross; title: The secret committee on the old believers: moving away from Catherine II's policy of religious toleration / Pia Pera.