Michael Speransky - Statesman of Imperial Russia 1772-1839 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1957)

"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, that the autocracy was the same in 1905 as it had been at the death of Peter the Great in 1725. Not that the outside world had remained ignorant of the efforts at reform, the changes, and the modernization wrought in Russia since the day Peter I had "cut a window into Europe. " But the prevailing opinion was that such changes as occurred were merely external and did not affect the fundamental structure of the government or of society.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	1957
First published:	1957
Authors:	Marc Raeff
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	387
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1957
ISBN-13:	978-9401185479
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > History > General
LSN:	9401185476
Barcode:	9789401185479

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