The Russian Empire
Kollmann, Nancy S / Petrov, Vladimir
The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys early modern Russia as an "empire of difference, " that is, the government ruled the empire primarily by tolerating the great cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of its subject peoples. Over its many lands the Moscow center used a combination of coercion, cooptation and supranational ideology to maintain power, and the book explores each of those themes. The Moscow government did not hesitate to us...