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Russian Monarchy

Representation and Rule
  • Richard Wortman
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2013
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Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule is devoted to studies of the political culture of the Russian monarchy as it influenced aspects of historical development such as law, representations of family, and concepts of nation and empire. The articles show how the narratives described in the author’s two-volume study, Scenarios of Power, guided monarchical rule, shaped the thought patterns not only of the tsar and the imperial family but also of the political and social elite, and set the parameters of compromise that so constrained the policies of imperial Russia.

Author / Editor information

Richard Wortman (PhD University of Chicago) is James Bryce Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD, and at Princeton University. His two-volume study Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy (1995-2000), published by Princeton University Press, is devoted to the role of imagery and representation in the exercise of monarchical power in Russia. An abridged one-volume edition, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II, was published in 2006.

Reviews

Aaron J. Cohen (California State University, Sacramento):
“Wortman and the editors are to be commended for bringing together a coherent collection of essays that articulates Wortman’s important ideas on the tsarist monarchy’s public relations strategies and functions in public discourse. It distills Wortman’s deep knowledge of imperial governmental institutions and the great detail of his two-volume study Scenarios of Power into a single accessible volume.”


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Part I Russian Monarchy and Law

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Part II Scenarios of Family and Nation

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Part III Narratives of Monarch and Nation

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Part IV Russian Monarchy and the Imperial State

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