Preface
Introduction: The Russian Empire 1450-1801
Prologue: The Chronological Arc
PART I: ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE
1: Land, People, and Global Context
2: De Facto Empire: The Rise of Moscow
3: Assembling Empire: The First Two Centuries
4: Eighteenth-Century Expansion: Siberia and Steppe
5: Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century
PART II: THE MUSCOVITE EMPIRE THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
6: Broadcasting Legitimacy
7: The State Wields its Power
8: Trade, Tax, and Production
9: Cooptation - Creating an Elite
10: Rural Taxpayers - Peasants and Beyond
11: Towns and Townsmen
12: Varieties of Orthodoxy
PART III: THE CENTURY OF EMPIRE: RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
13: Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center
14: Army and Administration
15: Fiscal Policy and Trade
16: Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
17: Soslovie, Serfdom, and Society on the Move
18: Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform
19: Confessionalization in a Multiethnic Empire
20: Maintaining Orthodoxy
21: Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life
Conclusion: Constructing and Envisioning Empire
Nancy Kollmann has taught early modern Russian history at Stanford
University since 1982. Her research has focused on the problem of
how politics worked in an autocratic state; she has studied how the
great men of the Moscow court received and enhanced their political
positions through marriage and kinship, how the tsar's government
supported litigations over personal honor for all social groups as
a means of social integration and how criminal law was applied
in
practice. She has also focused on the image of Russia conveyed to
Europeans in contemporary engravings, maps, and books.
Grounded upon an impressive list of renewed books and articles,
Nancy Shields Kollmann offers here a wonderful synthesis of her
long-standing contribution to the history of early modern Russia
... [an] excellent book
*Alessandro Stanziani, Slavic Review*
This excellent book provides a fresh, detailed treatment of the
construction, operation, and composition of the Russian Empire
during the early modern period.[A]n ideal reference work and
introduction to early modern Russian history that does justice to
the complexity of Russia's vast territory and diverse population,
while never losing sight of larger themes... Highly
recommended.
*CHOICE*
this masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift
given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian
history -- from the public to the specialists -- by a scholar most
intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship.
*Orel Beilinson, Reviews in History*
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