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050 00 $aDK131$b.A49 1995
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100 1 $aAnderson, M. S.$q(Matthew Smith)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50021937
245 10 $aPeter the Great /$cM.S. Anderson.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNew York :$bLongman,$c1995.
263 $a9509
300 $aix, 234 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aProfiles in power
500 $a"First published by Thames and Hudson LTD 1978"--CIP t.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tRussia before Peter: Modernization and Resistance --$gCh. 2.$tThe Young Tsar --$gCh. 3.$tThe First Initiatives: the Capture of Azov and the 'Great Embassy' to the West --$gCh. 4.$tEmergence into Europe: the Great Northern War.$tDisaster and triumph: from Narva to Poltava, 1700-9.$tNew opportunities and new difficulties, 1709-17.$tPeace at last, 1717-21.$tRussia as a great power --$gCh. 5.$tA New State and Society?$tThe Army and Navy.$tEconomic life and social stress.$tReligion and the Church.$tIntellectual and cultural life.$tThe administration and the administered --$gCh. 6.$tOpposition and its Repression: the Tsarevich Alexis --$gCh. 7.$tPeter the Man: Character and Personality --$gCh. 8.$t'The Greatest Monarch of our Age': Peter's Place in History.
520 $aPeter the Great is one of the dominating personalities of early modern Europe. During his reign (1682/89-1725) Russia emerged from semi-Asiatic isolation on the remote fringes of the western world to become a great political and military power in her own right, and, for the first time, a principal actor on the European stage.
520 8 $aThe study does full justice to Peter's extraordinary contribution to the development of Russia - his determination to westernize the country; to furnish it with the means of self-defence; to change drastically its religious and educational institutions; to give it a voice in European affairs; and to create a new capital city - Peter's "window on the West" - of unprecedented splendour.
520 8 $aThe portrait of the Tsar that emerges is impressive but not attractive. Peter's energy and vision were matched by his brutality in public affairs, a lack of human affection in his private relationships, and the coarseness of his personal behaviour. The darker side of both man and monarch is fully acknowledged here.
520 8 $aYet, when the failures and failings have been taken into account, and the accretions of historical myth-making stripped away, it remains a formidable life; and Matthew Anderson does it full justice in this admirable study.
600 00 $aPeter$bI,$cEmperor of Russia,$d1672-1725.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126171
651 0 $aRussia$xHistory$yPeter I, 1689-1725.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125782
651 0 $aRussia$xKings and rulers$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116743
830 0 $aProfiles in power (London, England)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86703379
852 00 $bglx$hDK131$i.A49 1995