This new collection of original essays by leading academics explores major issues in Russia's relations with the wider world since the seventeenth century. The emphasis is not on Russian foreign policy per se , but on the different levels of interaction between Russian, its immediate neighbors, and the wider global community, including cultural, political and economic relations. The book has been produced in honor of the distinguished historian, Professor Paul Dukes
Author(s): Cathryn Brennan, Murray Frame
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 253
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
A Note on Paul Dukes......Page 13
Notes on the Contributors......Page 17
1 Attitudes towards Foreigners in Early Modern Russia......Page 20
2 The Mercenary as Diplomat: the Fall of the House of Stuart and the Rise of the Petrine Order......Page 43
3 Foreigners, Faith and Freemasonry in the Eastern Baltic: the British Factory and Pastor Georg Ludwig Collins in Riga at the End of the Eighteenth Century......Page 64
4 Scotland and Russia: a Boundless Bond......Page 86
5 Russia, the Balkans, and Ukraine in the 1870s......Page 104
6 The Russian Constitutional Monarchy in Comparative Perspective......Page 128
7 Red Internationalists on the March: the Military Dimension, 1918–22......Page 145
8 Paths to World Socialist Revolution: West and East......Page 172
9 Soviet Perceptions of the Allies during the Great Patriotic War......Page 187
10 Russia and Decolonization in Eurasia......Page 209
11 Concluding Remarks......Page 228
Paul Dukes: a Select Bibliography......Page 239
Index......Page 242
