- 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
Prologue
Prologue
The Chronological Arc
- Chapter:
- (p.9) Prologue
- Source:
- The Russian Empire 1450-1801
- Author(s):
Nancy Shields Kollmann
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This work takes a thematic approach in general chronological order, with more detailed event-based history left to the background. In some cases, it is built into the chapters: Chapters 7 and 13 concerning imperial ideology, for example, pause to recount the vagaries of dynastic succession behind confident claims of seamless God-given power. In other cases events and institutions are mentioned for which the reader might wish prior knowledge. This prologue therefore provides a quick chronological overview of early modern Russian history, focusing on political events: first domestic chronicle, then foreign policy....
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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
