Research Catalog

Title

The Petrine revolution in Russian culture / James Cracraft.

Author

Cracraft, James.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 560 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power but into a European culture - a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. The author of seminal works on visual culture in the Petrine era, Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Russia > History > Peter I, 1689-1725
• Peter > I, > Emperor of Russia, > 1672-1725
• Russian language > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0674013166 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004040581

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries