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Jan 19, 2017 · Being an empire is inseparable from modern Russian identity and historical experience: the Russian empire was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450–1801 surveys how Russia’s many subject areas were conquered and how the empire was governed.
Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism.
- Nancy Shields Kollmann
- 2017
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The introductory chapter develops the theory of the early modern Russian empire as an “empire of difference,” typical of large continental Eurasian empires. It explores strategies of governing such empires: coercion; broadcasting a supranational ideology by enacting and embodying ideology in ritual and the built environment; constructing ...
Jan 19, 2017 · Russia’s foreign trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth century was what Jarmo Kotilaine calls demand driven; Russia profited from selling goods for export and collecting customs on transit goods. It was a simple trade model: most export was in foreign hands and export was generally raw materials.
Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism.
May 23, 2024 · Tel Aviv University. Citation: Mr Orel Beilinson, review of The Russian Empire 1450-1801, (review no. 2120) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2120. Date accessed: 28 April, 2024. See Author's Response. 2017 is a wonderful year to study the history of Russia.
The first chapter describes the topography and climate of the Russian empire, while the second traces how Moscow rose to regional power during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Chapters 3 to 5 explain how Moscow practiced a politics of difference during this period by maintaining regional cultures and institutions in exchange for loyalty ...
