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Article: The Revolution of Peter the Great.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2005
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The Revolution of Peter the Great. By James Cracraft. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $25.95.)
Peter the Great, it appears, never ceases to inspire. The last few years alone have seen two new, full-length studies of his reign and three abbreviated histories intended for undergraduate audiences. To this list we may now add James Cracraft's elegant abbreviated history. As the author of several earlier monographs and countless articles on the Petrine era in Russian history, Cracraft is ideally equipped to write such a book. And, as he makes clear at the outset, this volume restates the viewpoints that he has expressed in these earlier ...