The Russian Empire

• Verfasst von: Kollmann, Nancy Shields [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The Russian Empire
• Titelzusatz: 1450-1801
• Institutionen: Oxford University Press [Verlag]
• Verf.angabe: Nancy Shields Kollmann
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2017
• Umfang: xii, 497 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford history of early modern Europe
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928051-3
• ISBN: 0-19-928051-7
• Schlagwörter: (g)Russland / (s)Imperialismus / (s)Staatsgebiet / (s)Ausdehnung / (z)Geschichte 1450-1801
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950 - : The Russian Empire 1450-1801. - First edition.. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. - 1 online resource
• RVK-Notation: MG 85000
• RVK-Notation: NN 1375
• RVK-Notation: MG 85086
• K10plus-PPN: 865349932

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