The Russian Empire 1450–1801

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi

List of Maps xiii

Introduction: The Russian Empire 1450– 1801 1

Prologue: The Chronological Arc 9

PART I. ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE

1. Land, People, and Global Context 21


2. De Facto Empire: The Rise of Moscow 41


3. Assembling Empire: The First Centuries 55


4. Eighteenth-Century Expansion: Siberia and Steppe 84


5. Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century 103

PART II. THE MUSCOVITE EMPIRE

THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

6. Broadcasting Legitimacy 129


7. The State Wields its Power 160


8. Trade, Tax, and Production 187


9. Co-optation: Creating an Elite 207


10. Rural Taxpayers: Peasants and Beyond 222


11. Towns and Townsmen 235


12. Varieties of Orthodoxy 244

PART III. THE CENTURY OF EMPIRE: RUSSIA

IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

13. Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center 267


14. Army and Administration 296


15. Fiscal Policy and Trade 316


16. Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion 335


17. Soslovie, Serfs, and Society on the Move 355


18. Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform 375

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