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Article: Peter the great: The struggle for power, 1671-1725. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725. Paul Bushkovitch. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]47.50 (US$69.95). 485 pages. ISBN 0-521-80585-6. This study, part of Cambridge's 'New Studies in European History', seeks to do nothing less than to 'rewrite the political narrative' of Peter the Great's reign, to 'reconstruct the narrative' of those events that changed Russian life and to 'strip away many of the legends and anachronistic conceptions of the events of Peter's reign'. It is based on a massive amount of research in Russia and Europe and is a masterpiece of scholarship. Russian politics were, the author argues, 'not a stagnant pool of routine ...