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Patrons of enlightenment : the Free Economic Society in eighteenth-century Russia /

This book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the Society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work-the St. Petersburg aristoc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leckey, Colum, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foundations and façades
  • "The decay of agriculture"
  • Patrons and the peasant question
  • Voice from the provinces
  • "Not only to be read, but fulfilled."