New Russian History

1 total work

Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

by Evgenii V Anisimov, E V Anisimov, and J T Alexander

Published 31 May 1993

This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?