Author: Cracraft James Cracraft

This newly revised and expanded second edition of The Soviet Union Today provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Soviet reality. Written by thirty experts, the book is divided into eigh …

Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James …

The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture–a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. The …

Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James …

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