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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456855903321

Autore

Leckey Colum <1963->

Titolo

Patrons of enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : the Free Economic Society in eighteenth-century Russia / / Colum Leckey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, : University of Delaware Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-17312-3

9786613173126

1-61149-343-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

330.06/04721

330.94706

Soggetti

Economics - Russia - Societies, etc - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Russia Economic policy 18th century

Russia Economic conditions To 1861

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Patrons of Enlightenment; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Foundations and Façades; Chapter Two: "The Decay of Agriculture"; Chapter Three: Patrons and the Peasant Question; Chapter Four: Voices from the Provinces; Chapter Five: "Not Only to Be Read but Fulfilled"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first full-length study in English on the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society, Imperial Russia's most prestigious non-governmental association. It examines the Society from a wide variety of perspectives of the men and women who took part in its work-the St. Petersburg aristocrats and academics who established it in the 1760's, the budding intelligentsia, Catherine the Great and her court, its correspondents in Western Europe and the Russian provinces, and the wider Russian public.