Reforms of Peter the Great Progress Through Coercion in Russia

This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goal of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? Evgenii V. Anisimov's provocative history of Peter thus asks important questions with special resonance today.Anisimov, Evgenii V. is the author of 'Reforms of Peter the Great Progress Through Coercion in Russia' with ISBN 9781563240478 and ISBN 1563240475.