Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables, Figures, and Maps ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
6. Abbreviations xxi
7. Introduction 3
8. Part One: The Foundations
9. 1. The Petrine Vision and Its Fate 17
10. Part Two: Cultural Transfer, Interest Groups, and Economic Growth
11. 2. From Aufklärung to Romantic Idealism 53
12. 3. The Biogenetic Model and the Slavophil Entrepreneurs 79
13. 4. The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group 105
14. 5. The Engineers 129
15. 6. The Economists 165
16. 7. Origins of the Reutern System 199
17. 8. The Reutern System in Operation 235
18. 9. Patronage and Professionalism: The Witte System 272
19. Part Three: Social Structures in a Divided Polity
20. 10. Social Identity and Political Will: The Russian Nobility from Peter I, “The Great,” to 1861 299
21. 11. The Sedimentary Society 337
22. 12. Social and Political Fragmentation in Imperial Russia on the Eve of the First World War 362
23. Notes 387
24. Index 483