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Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia (Paperback): Marc Raeff Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia (Paperback)
Marc Raeff
R1,316 Discovery Miles 13 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best essays from his prolific, forty-year career; they span the history of Russia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. In these essays, Raeff considers the problems of imperial Russian politics and administration, analyzes Russia's intellectual and social history as it relates to the governance of the multiethnic empire, and places the institutional and intellectual history of Russia in the context of other Western and Central European developments. Raeff's essays offer a sketch of the generation that came of age in the era of the Napoleonic Wars and the ensuing attempts at constitutional reform-the generation that laid the foundations of the modern Russian national consciousness. He explores modernization reform and liberalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, the acquisition and incorporation of Russia's multiethnic population, and the politics and administration of the reigns of Peter III and Catherine II. He examines how the Russian elites assimilated values from the Western and Central European Enlightenment and assesses the important intellectual and ideological effects the Enlightenment had on the nation. The volume concludes with a comparative look at the process of Westernization, focusing on issues of literacy, state leadership, and the role of the intelligentsia. Many of these seminal essays are long out of print and hard to find. This timely volume makes Marc Raeff's insights readily available as Russia reemerges as a nation-state facing "new" challenges that are often deeply rooted in its past.

Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia (Hardcover): Marc Raeff Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia (Hardcover)
Marc Raeff
R4,170 Discovery Miles 41 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best essays from his prolific, forty-year career; they span the history of Russia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. In these essays, Raeff considers the problems of imperial Russian politics and administration, analyzes Russia's intellectual and social history as it relates to the governance of the multiethnic empire, and places the institutional and intellectual history of Russia in the context of other Western and Central European developments. Raeff's essays offer a sketch of the generation that came of age in the era of the Napoleonic Wars and the ensuing attempts at constitutional reform-the generation that laid the foundations of the modern Russian national consciousness. He explores modernization reform and liberalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, the acquisition and incorporation of Russia's multiethnic population, and the politics and administration of the reigns of Peter III and Catherine II. He examines how the Russian elites assimilated values from the Western and Central European Enlightenment and assesses the important intellectual and ideological effects the Enlightenment had on the nation. The volume concludes with a comparative look at the process of Westernization, focusing on issues of literacy, state leadership, and the role of the intelligentsia. Many of these seminal essays are long out of print and hard to find. This timely volume makes Marc Raeff's insights readily available as Russia reemerges as a nation-state facing "new" challenges that are often deeply rooted in its past.

Catherine the Great - A Profile (Paperback, 1st ed. 1972): Marc Raeff Catherine the Great - A Profile (Paperback, 1st ed. 1972)
Marc Raeff
R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Michael Speransky - Statesman of Imperial Russia 1772-1839 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1957): Marc... Michael Speransky - Statesman of Imperial Russia 1772-1839 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1957)
Marc Raeff
R1,591 Discovery Miles 15 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

Michael Speransky, Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772-1839 (Paperback): Marc Raeff Michael Speransky, Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772-1839 (Paperback)
Marc Raeff
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Michael Speransky, Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772-1839 (Hardcover): Marc Raeff Michael Speransky, Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772-1839 (Hardcover)
Marc Raeff
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Diary of a Napoleonic Footsoldier (Paperback, Reprinted edition): Jakob Walter The Diary of a Napoleonic Footsoldier (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
Jakob Walter; Edited by Marc Raeff
R603 R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Save R84 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter served in the Grand Army of Napoleon between 1806 and 1813. His diary intimately records his trials: the long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland, the disastrous Russian campaign, and the demoralizing defeat in a war few supported or understood. It is at once a compelling chronicle of a young soldier's loss of innocence and an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of all wars on the men who fight them.

Also included are letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, as well as period engravings and maps from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library.

"Vivid and gruesome ... but also a story of human fortitude. ... It reminds us that the troops Napoleon drove so mercilessly were actually more victims than victors--a side of Napoleon that should not be forgotten."
--Chicago Tribune

Russia Abroad - A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939 (Hardcover): Marc Raeff Russia Abroad - A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939 (Hardcover)
Marc Raeff
R5,822 Discovery Miles 58 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often led to the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first of these migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million Russians were forced into exile. With this book, Marc Raeff, one of the world's leading historians of Russia, offers the first comprehensive cultural history of the "Great Russian Emigration." He examines the social and institutional structure of the emigration and describes its rich cultural and intellectual life. He points out that what distinguishes this emigration from other such episodes in European history is the extent to which the emigres succeeded in reconstituting and preserving their cultural creativity in the West. The flourishing Russian communities of Paris, Berlin, Prague and Kharbin not only enriched Russian arts and letters, but also significantly influenced the culture of their Western hosts, and Raeff concludes with an assessment of their impact on the development of modern Western and Soviet culture.

Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia - The Eighteenth-Century Nobility (Paperback): Marc Raeff Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia - The Eighteenth-Century Nobility (Paperback)
Marc Raeff
R567 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R70 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement.

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