TY - BOOK AU - Raeff,Marc AU - Goldhammer,Arthur AU - Keep,John TI - Understanding Imperial Russia: State and Society in the Old Regime SN - 9780231945028 PY - 1984///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword /; Keep, John --; Preface --; 1. The Muscovite Background --; 2. Peter the Great's Revolution --; 3. Peter's System in Difficulty --; 4. The System of Peter the Great to Reform or Not to Reform? --; 5. The Dawn of the Nineteenth Century --; 6. The Regime of Nicholas I --; 7. The Transformation of Imperial Russia Continuity or Change? --; Important Dates --; Bibliographical Introduction --; Index; restricted access N2 - Examines Russia's past back to the distant epoch which saw the emergence and consolidation of the empire of the tsars in order to compare and contrast pre and post revolutionary Russia and between succesive phases of the Imperial era UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/raef94502 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231898997.jpg ER -