Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great

xii, 702 pp. "A masterly study of one of the most colorful monarchs in all of history." CONTENTS: Preface; Prologue; THE NEW RULER AND THE NEW GOVERNMENT: Catherine's Coup d'etat; The Reform of the Central Government Institutions; Local Administration and the Procuracy; The Baltic Provinces and Little Russia; THE ESTATES: The Nobility; The Towns, the Peasants and the Land; The Orthodox Church; Industrial and Agrarian Unrest: Repression and Reform in the 1760s; THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE: The Legislative Commission of 1767; The Great Instruction; The Great Debate; FOREIGN POLICY: POLAND AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Foreign Policy: From Peace to War; The First Turkish War; The Impact of the War on Russian Foreign Policy; From the Partition to Poland to the Peace of Kuchuk Kainardzhi; THE INTERNAL CRISIS OF 1773-4: The Revolt of the Cossacks and the Peasant War; The Court Crisis of 1773-4 and the Restoration of Order; THE REFORMING DECADE: The Reform of Local Administration in 1775; The Reforms of the 1780s; The Integration of Little Russia and Livonia into the Russian Empire; COURT POLITICS: Court and Culture; Favouritism; The Viceroy of the South; THE PORTE, POLAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: Between the Wars: Foreign Policy in the 1780s; The Second Turkish War; The Peace of Reichenbach, the Ochakov Crisis and the End of the Turkish War; The Second Partition of Poland; Finis Poloniae; DOMESTIC PROBLEMS: Agriculture and Industry; Trade and Finance; The Foundation of the Russian Educational System; Catherine's Religious Policy; THE DECLINING YEARS: The Role of Freemasonry; The Birth of the Intelligentsia; Social and Economic Changes 1775-96; Epilogue; Conclusions; Maps; Glossary; Weights and Measures; Notes; Bibliography; Index.