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      The Revolution of Peter the Great

      by James Cracraft

      Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms took root and spread in Russia. By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture on the cusp of its golden age. Here, Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era.

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      Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era.

      Linking together and transcending Peter's many reforms of state and society, Cracraft argues, was nothing less than a cultural revolution. New ways of dress, elite social behavior, navigation, architecture, and image-making emerged along with expansive vocabularies for labeling new objects and activities. Russians learned how to build and sail warships; train, supply, and command a modern army; operate a new-style bureaucracy; conduct diplomacy on a par with the other European states; apply modern science; and conceptualize the new governing system. Throughout, Peter remains the central figure, and Cracraft discusses the shaping events of the tsar's youth, his inner circle, the resistance his reforms engendered, and the founding of the city that would embody his vision--St. Petersburg, which celebrated its tercentenary in 2003.

      By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age. In this eloquent book, Cracraft illuminates an astonishing transformation that had enormous consequences for both Russia and Europe, indeed the world.

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      Cracraft's interpretive history, grounded in his considerable expertise and reputation, is a welcome addition. His writing is engaging, free of jargon, and very accessible for both students and general readers with an interest in Russia. -- Cathy A. Frierson, University of New Hampshire

      Author Biography

      James Cracraft is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

      Table of Contents

      Preface 1. Peter and Company 2. Military and Naval Revolutions 3. Diplomatic and Bureaucratic Revolutions 4. Cultural Revolution 5. Revolution and Resistance 6. St. Petersburg Conclusion Chronology Notes Further Reading Credits Index

      Review

      Essential reading for those seeking the origin of Russia's ongoing friction between Westernizers and nationalists. -- Gilbert Taylor Booklist 20031115 This impressive little book [is] at once informative and intellectually interesting. -- E. A. Cole Choice 20040601 This book represents a distillation of James Cracraft's magisterial work The Petrine Revolution, the three volumes of which cover Russian architecture, imagery and verbal culture. It is firmly rooted in a lifetime of research and a formidable body of sources, but targets the general reader in the form of an accessible, lightly-footnoted interpretative history of the reforms of Russia's most important ruler, who reigned from 1682 to 1725. -- Lindsey Hughes Times Literary Supplement 20040611 Anglo-American historians have spent a great deal of effort on Peter and his reign in the last decades, the pioneer among them Cracraft himself. He has used his own work and that of his colleagues with thoroughness and tact to provide his own synthesis of the events and their meaning... Cracraft has succeeded in conveying the latest understanding of Peter's time, one that he himself has been so central in creating, in an elegant and highly readable form. -- Paul Bushkovitch Cahiers du Monde Russe 20040701

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      Cracraft's interpretive history, grounded in his considerable expertise and reputation, is a welcome addition. His writing is engaging, free of jargon, and very accessible for both students and general readers with an interest in Russia. -- Cathy A. Frierson, University of New Hampshire

      Prizes

      Nominated for Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize 2004
      Nominated for American Society for 18th-Century Studies Louis Gotschalk Prize 2004
      Nominated for Jacques Barzun Prize 2003
      Nominated for W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize 2004

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      ISBN0674019849
      Author James Cracraft
      Short Title REVOLUTION OF PETER THE GRT
      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Language English
      ISBN-10 0674019849
      ISBN-13 9780674019843
      Media Book
      Format Paperback
      DEWEY 947.05
      Year 2006
      Imprint Harvard University Press
      Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass
      Country of Publication United States
      DOI 10.1604/9780674019843
      UK Release Date 2006-03-01
      AU Release Date 2006-03-01
      NZ Release Date 2006-03-01
      US Release Date 2006-03-01
      Pages 240
      Publication Date 2006-03-01
      Illustrations 36 halftones
      Audience Professional & Vocational

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