Peter the Great.

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Oliva, Lawrence Jay,, 1933- Peter the Great. Edited by L. Jay Oliva. - Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1970]
viii, 181 p. 21 cm. - (Great lives observed ) (A Spectrum book ) Content notes : 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. 0136620728 9780136620723 * Peter, 1672-1725. Pierre, 1672-1725. * Rois et souverains - Biographies. - Russie * Russie - Histoire - 1689-1725 (Pierre Ier) * Series