The Petrine revolution in Russian culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Cracraft, James. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xii, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5338474 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures
- Preface
- Note on Dates and Transliteration
- 1. Introduction
- Historiography
- Language, Culture, Modernity
- Russian before Peter
- 2. The Nautical Turn
- Russia in Maritime Europe
- The Naval Statute of 1720
- Other Nautical Texts
- Institutionalization
- 3. Military Modernization
- Military Revolutions: Europe to Russia
- The Military Statute of 1716
- Textbooks and Schools
- 4. Bureaucratic Revolution
- Advent of the Modern European State
- The Petrine State
- The General Regulation of 1720
- Regulations and Justifications
- 5. Science and Literature
- Geometry, Geography, History
- Eloquence, Theology, Philosophy
- The Academy
- 6. The Language Question
- The Print Revolution in Russia
- Lexical Proliferation
- Dictionaries and Grammars
- Russian after Peter
- 7. Conclusion
- The Petrine Revolution in Russia
- The Persistence of Muscovy
- Abbreviations
- Appendix I. Texts
- Appendix II. Words
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
