- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1 Land, People, and Global Context
- 2 De Facto Empire
- 3 Assembling Empire
- 4 Eighteenth-Century Expansion
- 5 Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Broadcasting Legitimacy
- 7 The State Wields its Power
- 8 Trade, Tax, and Production
- 9 Co-optation
- 10 Rural Taxpayers
- 11 Towns and Townsmen
- 12 Varieties of Orthodoxy
- 13 Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center
- 14 Army and Administration
- 15 Fiscal Policy and Trade
- 16 Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
- 17 <i>Soslovie</i>, Serfs, and Society on the Move
- 18 Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform
- 19 Confessionalization in a Multi-ethnic Empire
- 20 Maintaining Orthodoxy
- 21 Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Conclusion
- Index
Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
- Chapter:
- (p.335) 16 Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
- Source:
- The Russian Empire 1450-1801
- Author(s):
Nancy Shields Kollmann
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter continues Chapter 7’s theme of the state’s wielding empire-wide power. Forcible population movement continued, mapping of the realm intensified, and regular censuses of the taxpaying population were instituted. Communications improved, with the coach system integrated into a new mail system. Canals, particularly serving St. Petersburg, were also improved, as were military provisioning, grain reserves for major cities, and public health procedures. The chapter also describes how the judicial procedure and punishment regimes of the 1649 Lawcode remained in force as successive efforts of codification failed, but legal reform in the 1770s–80s created a more complex hierarchy of courts.
Keywords: surveillance, population movement, legal reform, maps, census, coachmen, communications, canals, passports, provisioning
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1 Land, People, and Global Context
- 2 De Facto Empire
- 3 Assembling Empire
- 4 Eighteenth-Century Expansion
- 5 Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Broadcasting Legitimacy
- 7 The State Wields its Power
- 8 Trade, Tax, and Production
- 9 Co-optation
- 10 Rural Taxpayers
- 11 Towns and Townsmen
- 12 Varieties of Orthodoxy
- 13 Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center
- 14 Army and Administration
- 15 Fiscal Policy and Trade
- 16 Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
- 17 <i>Soslovie</i>, Serfs, and Society on the Move
- 18 Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform
- 19 Confessionalization in a Multi-ethnic Empire
- 20 Maintaining Orthodoxy
- 21 Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Conclusion
- Index
