Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia

Reprints of 20 essays spanning the history of Russia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. In these essays, Raeff (Russian, Columbia U.) covers problems of imperial Russian politics and administration, analyzes Russia's intellectual and social history as it relates to the governance of the multi-ethnic empire, and places the institutional and intellectual history of Russia in the context of other Western and Central European developments. Contains a number of long out-of-print articles. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.