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Michael Speransky: Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772-1839
Marc Raeff
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Paperback. Num Pages: 394 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General; (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 690.
"An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. With this bon mot the average curiosity about the Tsars' government was satisfied and there seemed to be no need to look further into the matter. There was, on the surface of things, some justification for such a definition: many rulers had suffered violent death and little did the autocracy abate between 1725 and 1905. The impression created by travelers, by historians and journalists, as well as by Russia's own discontented intelligentsia was that nothing really ever changed in Russia, ... Read more
"An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. With this bon mot the average curiosity about the Tsars' government was satisfied and there seemed to be no need to look further into the matter. There was, on the surface of things, some justification for such a definition: many rulers had suffered violent death and little did the autocracy abate between 1725 and 1905. The impression created by travelers, by historians and journalists, as well as by Russia's own discontented intelligentsia was that nothing really ever changed in Russia, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
Number of Pages
394
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789024704552
SKU
V9789024704552
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