Peter The Great
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Tape residue on FEP and back page.
A landmark work of Russian historical scholarship, this biography chronicles the life and reign of one of history's most transformative rulers through the penetrating lens of Russia's foremost nineteenth-century historian. Vasili Klyuchevsky presents Peter I not as a mythologized titan, but as a complex, driven, and often contradictory figure whose relentless will reshaped an entire civilization. With rigorous academic authority and vivid narrative prose, Peter the Great details the tsar's sweeping modernization campaigns — from the reorganization of the military and state bureaucracy to the forced Westernization of Russian society and culture. Klyuchevsky argues that Peter's reforms, though undeniably revolutionary, were built upon coercion and contradiction, leaving a legacy as turbulent as the man himself. This essential text remains indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the foundations of the modern Russian state and the enduring tensions between tradition and transformation that Peter's era unleashed.
Author: Vasili Klyuchevsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Macmillan & Co Ltd
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Tape residue on FEP and back page.
A landmark work of Russian historical scholarship, this biography chronicles the life and reign of one of history's most transformative rulers through the penetrating lens of Russia's foremost nineteenth-century historian. Vasili Klyuchevsky presents Peter I not as a mythologized titan, but as a complex, driven, and often contradictory figure whose relentless will reshaped an entire civilization. With rigorous academic authority and vivid narrative prose, Peter the Great details the tsar's sweeping modernization campaigns — from the reorganization of the military and state bureaucracy to the forced Westernization of Russian society and culture. Klyuchevsky argues that Peter's reforms, though undeniably revolutionary, were built upon coercion and contradiction, leaving a legacy as turbulent as the man himself. This essential text remains indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the foundations of the modern Russian state and the enduring tensions between tradition and transformation that Peter's era unleashed.