The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture

James Cracraft

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    Preface

    Note on Dates and Transliteration

    1. Introduction
    Historiography
    Language, Culture, Modernity
    Russian before Peter

    2. The Nautical Turn
    Russia in Maritime Europe
    The Naval Statute of 1720
    Other Nautical Texts
    Institutionalization

    3. Military Modernization
    Military Revolutions: Europe to Russia
    The Military Statute of 1716
    Textbooks and Schools

    4. Bureaucratic Revolution
    Advent of the Modern European State
    The Petrine State
    The General Regulation of 1720
    Regulations and Justifications

    5. Science and Literature
    Geometry, Geography, History
    Eloquence, Theology, Philosophy
    The Academy

    6. The Language Question
    The Print Revolution in Russia
    Lexical Proliferation
    Dictionaries and Grammars
    Russian after Peter

    7. Conclusion
    The Petrine Revolution in Russia
    The Persistence of Muscovy

    Abbreviations

    Appendix I: Texts

    Appendix II: Words

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

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James Cracraft is Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago.