The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

This Psychologically Penetrating Revisionist Account Of The Life And Rule Of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer Develops An Important Theme - That Is, What Happens When The Drive For Progress Is Linked To An Autocratic, Expansionist Impulse Rather Than To A Larger Goal Of Human Emancipation? And, What Has Been The Price Of Power - Both For Peter And For Russia?