The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Bibliographic Data

ID11778368
AuthorsNancy Shields Kollmann (0009-0001-2462-8228, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages512
Publication date2017-01-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Russian Empire 1450-1801 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280513.001.0001
OpenAlexW2578954339
ISBN9780199280513
Open LibraryOL27416223M
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys early modern Russia as an "empire of difference," that is, the government ruled the empire primarily by tolerating the great cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of its subject peoples. Over its many lands the Moscow center used a combination of coercion, cooptation and supranational ideology to maintain power, and the book explores each of those themes. The Moscow government did not hesitate to use violence and oppression to conquer and subdue territories; it coopted elites into the imperial nobility and local administrations; it projected an image of a benevolent tsar who protected his people and used architecture and ceremony to project that unifying ideology

Ancient history · Empire · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Soviet and Russian History · Russia

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