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Ruling Russian Eurasia, Khans, Clans, and Tsars

An interpretative history of the Russian Empire from 1700 to 1917, in the larger Eurasian context of the Mongols, Muscany and the Soviet Union. It explains how a westernizing oligarchy tried to transform an enigma of clan societies into modern nation states, and it includes original documents.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Robert Chadwell 1938- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malabar, Fla. Krieger Pub. Co. 2000
Series:Anvil series
Subjects:
Russia > History > 1689-1801
Russia > History > 1801-1917
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Table of Contents:
  • pt.1. The Russian Empire
  • Inner Eurasia
  • Steppe and Sea Nomads
  • The Rus Kaganates
  • The Kipchak Khanate
  • Muscovite Russia
  • Constructing Imperial Russia
  • Reform and revolution
  • Soviet Russia
  • National cultures
  • Post-Soviet Eurasia
  • pt.2. Readings
  • Herodotus on the Scythians (c. 415 BCE)
  • The Primary Chronicle on the Founding of Kiev Rus (862)
  • The Primary Chronicle on the Baptism of Prince Vladimir (988)
  • The Kipchak Khanate and the "Golden Horde" (1200s)
  • Last Will and Testament of Moscow Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoi (1389)
  • The Domostroi Rules for Russian Households
  • Law Code (Ulozhenie) of 1649 on Serfdom
  • The Reforms of Peter the Great (1699-1725)
  • John Bell's Travels in Central Asia (1719)
  • Peter III's Emancipation on the Nobility (1762)
  • Catherine 's Charter to the Nobility
  • Annexing the Crimean Khanate (1783)
  • Emperor Paul I on the Rules of the Romanov Family Succession (1797)
  • Speransky's Code of Indigenous Administration (Siberia) (1822)
  • Pushkin and the Decembrists (1825)
  • Peter Chaadaev on Russia's Family Identity (1836)
  • Baron Haxthausen on the Peasant Family and Commune (1844)
  • The Brotherhood of Ss. Cyril and Methodius (1848)
  • The Emancipation of the Serfs (1861)
  • Leo Tolstoy on the Families of Anna Karenina (1875-1877)
  • Praskovaya Ivanovskaya on the People's Will and the Murder of Alexander II (1881)
  • Special Measures for the Maintenance of Order (1881)
  • Lenin's Genealogy
  • Stalin's Family
  • Prince Urusov on the Kishinev Pogrom (1903)
  • The Fundamental Laws of Imperial Russia (1906)
  • Panmongolism and the Scythians (1899, 1918)
  • The Romanov Family on the Abdication of Nicholas II (1917)
  • National Declarations of Independence (1918-1919)
  • Yurovsky, Lenin, and Yeltsin on the murder of the Romanov family (1918, 1998)
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Gulag Archipelago (1973)

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