Title: The reforms of Peter the Great
Description: 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.
Subjects: History, Peter i, emperor of russia, 1672-1725
Places: Russia
Time periods: Peter I, 1689-1725