Oliva, Lawrence Jay, 1933- Peter the Great. [electronic resource] / Edited by L. Jay Oliva.. — Englewood Cliffs, N.J., : Prentice-Hall, [1970]. — viii, 181 p. 21 cm. — (Great lives observed)(A Spectrum book).

"Bibliographical note": p. 178.

Part 1. Peter the Great looks at the world. The journal of Peter the Great -- Petrine decrees -- Peter and his family -- Peter and his correspondents -- Part 2. The official view -- The view from inside the empire -- The view from Europe -- Part 3. Founder and father of his empire / Voltaire -- Tears and corpses / Karamzin -- The great man who civilized us / Chaadayev -- The miracle of Peter the Great / Belinsky -- Immense spiritual evil / Aksakov -- The artisan-tsar / Klyuchevsky -- In advance of his century / Miliukov -- The bankruptcy of Peter's system / Pokrovsky -- Soviet academy of sciences: absolutism and the police-bureaucratic state.



ISBN: 0136620728 9780136620723

LCCN: 76126813

Subjects--Personal Names:
Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725.
Pierre Ier, empereur de Russie, 1672-1725.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rois et souverains--Russie--Biographies.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Russie--Histoire--1689-1725 (Pierre Ier)

LC Class. No.: DK131 / .O39 CT101 / .G7 v.6

Dewey Class. No.: 947/.05/0924 B