Research Catalog

Title

The Romanov empire : 1613-1917 : autocracy and opposition / Alan Wood.

Author

Wood, Alan, 1943-

Publication

London : Hodder Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xiv, 425 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

This text presents an investigation of the Romanov Empire from its inception to its demise. It combines a study of the personalities and policies of individual autocrats, such as Peter the Great, with an examination of the multifarious challenges to the imperial state they governed and misgoverned.

Series Statement

Brief histories

Uniform Title

Brief histories

Subject

• Romanov, House of
• 1613-1917
• Geschichte 1500-2000
• Russia > History > 1613-1917

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-414) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the text -- Order of succession to the Romanov throne, 1613-1894 -- 1. Land and peoples -- 2. Kievan, Mongol and early Muscovite Russia -- 3. The early Romanovs, 1613-1682 -- 4. The age of Peter the Great, 1682-1725 -- 5. The period of palace revolutions, 1725-1762 -- 6. The age of Catherine the Great, 1762-1796 -- 7. Paul, Alexander I and the Decembrists, 1796-1825 -- 8. The Nikolaevshchina, 1825-1855 -- 9. Reform, revolutionary populism and regicide, 1855-1881 -- 10. Reaction, industrialisation and Russian Marxism, 1881-1904 -- 11. 1905 and the sham constitution, 1904-1914 -- 12. War, revolution and the end of the Romanovs, 1914-1917 -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780340761885 (pbk.)
• 0340761881 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008296042

OCLC

• 85689638
• SCSB-13406761

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library