Imperial Russian Foreign Policy - Conference : Revised Papers

Zusammenfassung With contributions from both Russia and the West! this new book aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicion and fear! that of Russian foreign policy. The book claims that the tsar was directly responsible for the formulation of most foreign policy and reveals the complex of motives behind his decisions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Origins Of Imperial Russian Foreign Policy: 1. Imperial consciousness in eighteenth-century Russian foreign policy E. V. Anisimov; 2. The role of the Baltic in Russian foreign policy 1721-1773 Hans Bagger; Part II. Imperial Russia and the Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century: 3. Rusian projects of conquest in the eighteenth century Hugh Ragsdale; 4. Runaway peasants and Russian motives for the partitions of Poland Robert E. Jones; Part III. Imperial Russia in the Coming of the Crimean War: 5. Policy traditions and the Menshikov Mission of 1853 David M. Goldfrank; 6. The personal responsibility of Nicholas I for the coming of the Crimean War V. N. Vinogradov; Part IV. Imperial Russian Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth Century America: 7. Russian policy in the US during the Crimean War V. N. Ponomarev; 8. The sale of Alaska in the context of Russo-American relations in the nineteenth century N. N. Bolkhovitinov; Part V. Adventure and Disaster in the Late Empire: 9. Russian policy in the Balkans in the reign of Alexander II, 1855-1881 David MacKenzie; 10. The foreign policy of Russia in the Far East at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries A. V. Ignatiev; 11. The interaction of foreign and domestic interests in central and southeast Europe, 1900-1914 David McDonald; Part VI. Perspectives and Conclusions: 12. Persistent factors in Russian foreign policy: an interpretative essay Alfred J. Rieber.

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• Autori: V. N. Ponomarev, Hugh Ragsdale, Hugh (University of Alabama) Ragsdale
• Con la collaborazione di: Lee H. Hamilton (Editore), Valerii N. Ponomarev (Editore), Hugh Ragsdale (Editore), Ragsdale Hugh (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.10.1993
• EAN: 9780521442299
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44229-9
• Pagine: 476
• Serie: Woodrow Wilson Center Series; Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, C 1700 To C 1800, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial