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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815705803321

Autore

Kagarlitsky Boris <1958->

Titolo

Empire of the periphery : Russia and the world system / / Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Renfrey Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2008

ISBN

1-84964-312-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkeRenfrey

Disciplina

947

Soggetti

Historical materialism

Russia Economic conditions

Soviet Union Economic conditions

Russia (Federation) Economic conditions 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Topic and Method -- 1 A Land of Cities -- 2 The Thirteenth- Century Decline -- 3 Moscow and Novgorod -- 4 The ' English Tsar' -- 5 The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century -- 6 Empire of the Periphery -- 7 Peter the Great -- 8 The Eighteenth- Century Expansion -- 9 The Granary of Europe -- 10 The Crimean War and the World System -- 11 The Age of Reforms -- 12 The Flourishing of Russian Capitalism: From Witte to Stolypin -- 13 The Revolutionary Explosion -- 14 The Soviet World -- 15 After 1991: The Peripheral Capitalism of the Restoration Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.