Book Review of Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives
Posted by William Young on January 24, 2013
Lindsey Hughes, editor. Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives. Studies in Russia and East Europe series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. ISBN 978-0-333-92009-1. Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Pp. xxiv, 280. $115.00 (hardcover).
Peter I (the Great) of Russia is the subject of numerous biographies and academic studies. Historians have focused on his life, reforms, and wars that resulted in Russia’s emergence as a Great Power in the Baltic Region. The late Dr Lindsey Hughes, Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, collected and edited a number of essays by leading historians of Russia focusing on recent research on the reign of Peter the Great. Hughes is known for her studies including Russia and the West: The Life of a Seventeenth-Century Westernizer, Prince Vasily Vasil’evich Golitsyn (1643-1714) (1984), Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 (1990), Russia in the Age of Peter…
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Military History 
Mick said
An interesting book – one that I’m keen to read.
Does anyone recommend this as a good over view of early Russian military history?