The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture

by 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. The author of seminal works on visual culture in the Petrine era, Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture.

The forceful institutionalization of the tsar's reforms--the establishment of a navy, modernization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013166
• ISBN13: 9780674013162
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"