Imperial Russian Project - Autocratic Politics, Economic Development, and Social Fragmentation

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.

List 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

By Alfred J. Rieber
Foreword by Yanni Kotsonis

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Rieber, Alfred J Rieber, Alfred J. Rieber
• Assisted by: Alfred Rieber (Editor), Alfred J. Rieber (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2017
• EAN: 9781487520380
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2038-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education