Power and the people: essays on Russian history / John L.H. Keep

Boulder: East European Monographs, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 443 pages; 24 cm. Contents:pt. I. Muscovite Russia. 1. The Muscovite Elite and the Approach to Pluralism. 2. The Decline of the Zemsky Sobor. 3. Bandits and the Law in Muscovy. 4. The Regime of Filaret, 1619-1633 -- pt. II. Army and Society in Imperial Russia. 5. The Secret Chancellery, the Guards and the Dynastic Crisis of 1740-1741. 6. Catherine's Veterans. 7. Paul I and the Militarization of Government. 8. The Military Style of the Romanov Rulers. 9. The Russian Army's Response to the French Revolution. 10. From the Pistol to the Pen: the Military Memoir as a Source on the Social History of Pre-reform Russia. 11. Chernyshevsky and the Military Miscellany -- pt. III. The Russian Revolution. 12. Emancipation by the Ax: Peasant Revolts in Russian Thought and Literature. 13. Russian Social Democracy and the First State Duma. 14. Russia 1917: the Tyranny of Paris over Petrograd. 15. Lenin as Tactician. 16. Lenin's Letters as a Historical Source -- pt. IV. Soviet Historiography. 17. The Rehabilitation of M.N. Pokrovskii. Subjects: Russia Armed Forces History. Russia History Revolution, 1917-1921.