Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS

1. The Petrine Vision and Its Fate

PART TWO: CULTURAL TRANSFER, INTEREST GROUPS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

2. The Aufklärung in Russia
3. The Biogenetic Model
4. The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group
5. The Engineers
6. The Economists
7. Origin of the Reutern System
8. The Reutern System in Operation
9. Patronage and Professionalism

PART THREE: SOCIAL STRUCTURES IN A DIVIDED POLITY

10. The Social Identification of the Nobility
11. The Sedimentary Society
12. Social and Political Fragmentation

About the Author

Alfred J. Rieber is a premier historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He is University Professor Emeritus at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.

Yanni Kotsonis is an associate professor in the Departments of History and of Russian and Slavic Studies and founding Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.

Reviews

"Alfred Rieber belong to the first generation of postwar Russian experts in the United States, yet sixty years later he is still going strong, producing research of great originality and powerful insight. This collection of articles – too rich for a review to do justice – prsents a searching and distinctive interpretation of the evolution of Imperial Russia from the eighteenth to the twentieth century." - Geoffrey Hosking, University College London (Journal of Modern History, September 2019) "The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society." - Richard Wortman (Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History) "The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society. Rieber places these developments in the context of the abiding limits to progress: uncompromising autocratic authority, the backwardness of the economy, poorly articulated social boundaries and identities, as well as the vastness of the empire." - Richard Wortman (Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History)