Russia and the Wider World in Historical Perspective: Essays for Paul Dukes

by C. Brennan (Editor), M. Frame (Editor)

Overview

This new collection of original essays by leading academics explores major issues in Russia's relations with the wider world since the seventeenth century. The emphasis is not on Russian foreign policy per se, but on the different levels of interaction between Russia, its immediate neighbours, and the wider global community, including cultural, political and economic relations. The book has been produced in honour of the distinguished historian, Professor Paul Dukes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349400379
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/02/2000
Edition description:	1st ed. 2000
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

CATHRYN BRENNAN is a specialist on the history of the Russian Far East at the Centre for Russian, East and Central European Studies, University of Aberdeen.

MURRAY FRAME is lecturer in history at the University of Dundee (since 1995). His publications include The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 - A Bibliographic Guide to Works in English (1995) and The St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres - Stage and State in Revolutionary Russia (1999).

Table of Contents

Preface Paul Dukes Notes on the Contributors Attitudes Towards Foreigners in Early Modern Russia; L.Hughes The Mercenary as Diplomat: The Fall of the House of Stuart and the Rise of the Petrine Order; G.P.Herd Foreigners, Faith and Freemasonry in the Eastern Baltic: The British Factory and Pastor Georg Ludwig Collins in Riga at the End of the Eighteenth Century; R.Bartlett Scotland and Russia: A Boundless Bond; D.Fedosov Russia, the Balkans, and Ukraine in the 1870s; D.Saunders The Russian Constitutional Monarchy in Comparative Perspective; R.B.McKean Red Internationalists on the March: The Military Dimension, 1918-1922; J.Erickson Paths to World Socialist Revolution: West and East; B.Starkov Soviet Perceptions of the Allies during the Great Patriotic War; S.Davies Russia and Decolonization in Eurasia; J.Houbert Concluding Remarks; J.D.White Paul Dukes - A Select Bibliography Index