The Petrine revolution in Russian culture / James Cracraft.

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. Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cracraft, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • The nautical turn
  • Military modernization
  • Bureaucratic revolution
  • Science and literature
  • The language question.