Text extracted from opening pages of book: CATHERINE THE GREAT and
the Expansion of Russia by GLADYS SCOTT THOMSON Publish*! by HODDER
& STOUGHTON LIMITED for THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES PRESS AT SAINT
PAUL'S HOUSE IN THE CITY OF LONDON FIRST PRINTED APRIL 1947 All
rights reserved PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE ENGLISH
UNIVERSITIES PRESS, LTD LONDON, BY BAZBLL, WATSON AND V1NEY, LTD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBUR A General Introduction to the Series HPHIS
series has been undertaken in the con-A viction that there can be
no subject of study more important than history. Great as have been
the conquests of natural science in our time such that many think
of ours as a scientific age par excellence it is even more urgent
and necessary that advances should be made in the social sciences,
if we are to gain control of the forces of nature loosed upon us.
The bed out of which all the social sciences spring is history;
there they find, in greater or lesser degree, subject-matter and
material, verification or contradiction. There is no end to what we
can learn from history, if only we would, for it is coterminous
with life. Its special field is the life of man in society, and at
every point we can learn vicariously from the experience of others
before us in history. To take one point only the understanding of
politics: how can we hope to understand the world of affairs around
us if we do not know how it came to be what it is? How to
understand Germany, or Soviet Russia, or the United States or
ourselves, without knowing something of their history ? GENERAL
INTRODUCTION There is no subject that is more useful, or indeed
indispensable. Some evidence of the growing awareness of this may
be seen in the immenseincrease in the interest of the reading
public in history, and the much larger place the subject has come
to take in education in our time. This series has been planned to
meet the needs and demands of a very wide public and of educa tion
they are indeed the same. I am convinced that the most congenial,
as well as the most con crete and practical, approach to history is
the biographical, through the lives of the great men whose actions
have been so much part of history, and whose careers in turn have
been so moulded and formed by events. The key-idea of this series,
and what dis tinguishes it from any other that has appeared, is the
intention by way of a biography of a great man to open up a
significant historical theme; for example, Cromwell and the Puritan
Revo lution, or Lenin and the Russian Revolution. My hope is, in
the end, as the series fills out and completes itself, by a
sufficient number of biographies to cover whole periods and
subjects in that way. To give you the history of the United States,
for example, or the British Empire or France, via a number of
biographies of their leading historical figures. That should be
something new, as well as convenient and practical, in education.
vi GENERAL INTRODUCTION f I need hardly say that I am a strong
believer in people with good academic standards writing once more
for the general reading public, and of the public being given the
best that the univer sities can provide. From this point of view
this series is intended to bring the university into the homes of
the people. A. L. ROWSE. ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD. VU Contents
CHAPTEX FACIE GENERAL INTRODUCTION ... V INTRODUCTORY NOTE ... X I.
PROLOGUE I H. THE GRAND-DUCHESS ... 25 III.THE EMPRESS CONSORT 60
IV. THE EMPRESS .... 83 V. RUSSIA AND POLAND . . . IOQ VI. RUSSIA
AND TURKEY . . .128 VH. PUGACHEV ..... 149 Vm. POTEMKIN THE CRIMEA
TURKEY . 1 70 DC. TURKEY AND POLAND AGAIN . r 94 X. ST. PETERSBURG
AND ITS PEOPLE . 215 XI. THE ARTS AND THE SCIENCES . 248 XII. THE
LAST YEARS .... 269 FOR FURTHER READING . . . 284 INDEX ...... 287
C. G. 1* Introductory Note HPHIS study of Catherine the Great has
no * pretensions to original research. It is merely an attempt to
give the reader an outline of the story of the Empress and the
Russia over which
General
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