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Author Rieber, Alfred J., author.

Title The imperial Russian project : autocratic politics, economic development, and social fragmentation / Alfred J. Rieber
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Contents Cover; Page i; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables, Figures, and Maps; Persistence amid Novelty: Alfred Rieber and the Problem of Power; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN PROJECT; Introduction; PART ONE: The Foundations; Chapter One: The Petrine Vision and Its Fate; PART TWO: Cultural Transfer, Interest Groups, and Economic Growth; Chapter Two: From Aufklärung to Romantic Idealism; Chapter Three: The Biogenetic Model and the Slavophil Entrepreneurs; Chapter Four: The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group; Chapter Five: The Engineers
Chapter Six: The EconomistsChapter Seven: Origins of the Reutern System; Chapter Eight: The Reutern System in Operation; Chapter Nine: Patronage and Professionalism: The Witte System; PART THREE: Social Structures in a Divided Polity; Chapter Ten: Social Identity and Political Will: The Russian Nobility from Peter I, â#x80;#x9C;The Great,â#x80;#x9D; to 1861; Chapter Eleven: The Sedimentary Society; Chapter Twelve: Social and Political Fragmentation in Imperial Russia on the Eve of the First World War; Notes; Index
Summary The Imperial Russian Project is a collection of Rieber's lifetime of work, focusing on three interconnected themes of this time period: the role of reform in the process of state building, the interaction of state and social movements, and alternative visions of economic development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2018)
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Economic history
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Russia -- History -- 1801-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125796
Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125837
Russia -- Economic conditions -- 1861-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125724
Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125854
Subject Russia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487511203
1487511205
9781487511210
1487511213