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John T. Alexander. Catherine the Great: Crises and Conquests. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii, 384 pp. $24.95.

John T. Alexander. Catherine the Great: Crises and Conquests. Oxford: Oxford University Press,... and the registration o f the property holdings o f all taxpayers. His desire for greater equality of all before the tsar (and more profitable service) led him to recommend the equality o f all before the law and in the courts. His arrest and imprisonment thus should come as no surprise. Any student o f Russian history would profit from reading Pososhkov. His vision o f the successes and failures o f Peter's reform efforts provides the historian with a tiny w i n d o w through which to view society's response to Peter's attempts to alter Russia's centuries-old tribute collecting hierarchy and reinforces our understanding of h o w enormously difficult that process was in the eighteenth century, and remains so even today. H u g h D. H u d s o n , J r . Georgia State University J o h n T. Alexander. C a t h e r i n e the G r e a t : C r i s e s a n d Conquests. Oxford: O x f o r d University Press, 1988. xii, 384 pp. $24.95. As a specialist o n the history o http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

John T. Alexander. Catherine the Great: Crises and Conquests. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii, 384 pp. $24.95.

Jones, Robert E.
Russian History , Volume 17 (1): 87 – Jan 1, 1990
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and the registration o f the property holdings o f all taxpayers. His desire for greater equality of all before the tsar (and more profitable service) led him to recommend the equality o f all before the law and in the courts. His arrest and imprisonment thus should come as no surprise. Any student o f Russian history would profit from reading Pososhkov. His vision o f the successes and failures o f Peter's reform efforts provides the historian with a tiny w i n d o w through which to view society's response to Peter's attempts to alter Russia's centuries-old tribute collecting hierarchy and reinforces our understanding of h o w enormously difficult that process was in the eighteenth century, and remains so even today. H u g h D. H u d s o n , J r . Georgia State University J o h n T. Alexander. C a t h e r i n e the G r e a t : C r i s e s a n d Conquests. Oxford: O x f o r d University Press, 1988. xii, 384 pp. $24.95. As a specialist o n the history o

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