Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725

This book is a history of Russian politics during a fifty-year period that saw the transformation of Russia into a European monarchy by Peter the Great. Bushkovitch demonstrates that the interaction of the tsar and the ruling elite was at the core of Russian politics as Peter managed to largely master the contentious elite by a series of compromises, ultimately toward one that favored new men without excluding the aristocrats entirely. The outcome was a new balance of power at the center, and a new Europeanized culture.

Author: Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/11/2007
Pages: 500
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780521030670

About the Author
Bushkovitch, Paul: - Paul Bushkovitch has been Professor of History at Yale University since 1992, having taught there since 1975. His books include The Merchants of Moscow, 1580-1650 (Cambridge, 1980) and Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992).

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