Cargando…

Empire of the periphery : Russia and the world system /

Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of a thousand years of Russian history. Encompassing all key periods in Russia's dramatic development, the book covers everything from early settlers, through medieval decline, Ivan the Terrible-the "English Tsar", Peter the...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kagarlitsky, Boris, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Ruso
Publicado: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2008.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: topic and method
  • Land of cities
  • Thirteenth-century decline
  • Moscow and Novgorod
  • 'English Tsar'
  • Crisis of the seventeenth century
  • Empire of the periphery
  • Peter the Great
  • Eighteenth-century expansion
  • Granary of Europe
  • Crimean War and the world system
  • Age of reforms
  • Flourishing of Russian capitalism: from Witte to Stolypin
  • Revolutionary explosion
  • Soviet world
  • After 1991: the peripheral capitalism of the Restoration era.