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Catherine the Great

A Profile

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: World Profiles (WOPR)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. The Individual

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Portrait of an Enlightened Autocrat

      • Aleksandr A. Kizevetter
      Pages 3-20
    3. The Intellectual Formation of Catherine II

      • Vasilii A. Bil’Bassov
      Pages 21-40
    4. The Empress and the Philosophe

      • Ivan K. Luppol
      Pages 41-63
    5. The Empress as Writer

      • Grigorii A. Gukovskii
      Pages 64-89
  3. The Autocrat and Russian Educated Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Educational Reforms

      • Pavel N. Miliukov
      Pages 93-112
    3. Voices of the Land and the Autocrat

      • Pavel N. Miliukov
      Pages 113-155
    4. The Autocrat and the Open Critic

      • Allen McConnell
      Pages 156-178
  4. The Ruler

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Diplomacy

      • Sergei V. Bakhrushin, Sergei D. Skazkin
      Pages 181-196
    3. In the Imperial Manner

      • Marc Raeff
      Pages 197-246
    4. The Legislator in Her Debut

      • Aleksandr A. Kizevetter
      Pages 247-266
    5. The Serf Question in an Age of Enlightenment

      • Aleksandr S. Lappo-Danilevskii
      Pages 267-289
    6. Church Affairs

      • A. M. S. J. Ammann
      Pages 290-300
    7. Postscript

      • Marc Raeff
      Pages 301-321
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 323-331

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Catherine the Great

  • Book Subtitle: A Profile

  • Editors: Marc Raeff

  • Series Title: World Profiles

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01467-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Marc Raeff 1972

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-01469-9Published: 01 January 1972

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-01467-5Published: 18 June 1972

  • Series ISSN: 2947-079X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-0803

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 331

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History

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