Russian Identities: A Historical SurveyThis book investigates the question of Russian identity, looking at changes and continues over a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main emphases are on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization. |
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2 Kievan Russia | 18 |
3 Appanage and Muscovite Russia | 33 |
4 The Reign of Peter the Great | 74 |
5 The Eighteenth Century in Russia after the Death of Peter the Great | 88 |
6 The Reign of Alexander I 18011825 | 111 |
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