Anglo-American historians have spent a great deal of effort on
Peter and his reign in the last decades, the pioneer among them
Cracraft himself. He has used his own work and that of his
colleagues with thoroughness and tact to provide his own synthesis
of the events and their meaning... Cracraft has succeeded in
conveying the latest understanding of Peter's time, one that he
himself has been so central in creating, in an elegant and highly
readable form.--Paul Bushkovitch"Cahiers du Monde Russe"
(07/01/2004)
Essential reading for those seeking the origin of Russia's ongoing
friction between Westernizers and nationalists.--Gilbert
Taylor"Booklist" (11/15/2003)
This book represents a distillation of James Cracraft's magisterial
work "The Petrine Revolution", the three volumes of which cover
Russian architecture, imagery and verbal culture. It is firmly
rooted in a lifetime of research and a formidable body of sources,
but targets the general reader in the form of an accessible,
lightly-footnoted interpretative history of the reforms of Russia's
most important ruler, who reigned from 1682 to 1725.--Lindsey
Hughes"Times Literary Supplement" (06/11/2004)
This impressive little book [is] at once informative and
intellectually interesting.--E. A. Cole"Choice" (06/01/2004)
This impressive little book Ýis¨ at once informative and
intellectually interesting. -- E. A. Cole "Choice" (06/01/2004)
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