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Catherine the Great: A Short History
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Catherine the Great A Short History This item Catherine the Great A Short History by Professor Isabel de Madariaga Paperback 1495 Only 5 left in stock more on the way Ships from and sold by Catherine the Great A Short History by Isabel de Madariaga Catherine the Great A Short History An eminent scholar of Russian history here presents the most informative balanced and uptodate short study of Catherine the Great and her reign This edition includes a new preface dealing with recently discovered sources and revised interpretations of the period Catherine the Great A Short History Hardcover This book is a short history of Catherine the Greats reign consisting of 218 pages It is an introduction and covers major highlights over a 30 year span from the coup detat that landed Catherine in power to her final days and fatal stroke not the fabled horse romp Catherine the Great A Short History by Isabel de Madariaga Catherine the Great A Short History is an excellent summary of this scholarly literature written in a form that is accessible for general readers The reign of Catherine the Great shaped history as much as it was bound by it building a bridge between ages across which the Russian empire became transformed into a modern power Catherine the Great a short history Book 2002 1 Catherine Seizes Power in the Russian Empire 2 Russian Society in 1762 3 Catherines First Years 4 First Turkish War 5 Crisis of the 1770s 6 Reform of Local Administration and of the Legal System 7 Armed Neutrality and the Annexation of the Crimea 8 Catherines Influence on Russian Cultural Life 9 Catherine the Great Yale University Press This readable and stimulating biography of Catherine the Great is a real asset to our understanding of the history of women in power—Susan Groag Bell Womens Review of Books This is a timely book and with scholarship and a broad sweep de Madariaga sorts the fact from the fiction that has grown up around Russias most powerful empress—Roger Williams The Sunday Times
