Russia after emancipation - views of a gentleman-farmer; a reactionary liberal - M.N. Katkov; some reflections of Russian liberalism; Russian youth on the eve of Romanticism - Andrei I. Turgenev and his circle; at the origins of a Russian national consciousness - 18th-century roots and the Napoleonic Wars; the Russian autocracy and its officials; introduction to plans for political reform in Imperial Russia, 1730-1905; Russia's autocracy and paradoxes of modernization; patterns of Russian imperial policy toward to nationalities; uniformity, diversity and the imperial administration in the reign of Catherine II; in the imperial manner; the domestic policies of Peter III and his overthrow; the Empress and the Vinerian professor - Catherine II's projects of government; reforms and Blackstone's commentaries; Pugachev's rebellion; State and nobility in the ideology of M.N. Shcherbatov; Muscovy looks west; the Englightenment in Russia and Russian thought in the Enlightenment; the well-ordered police state and the development of modernity in 17th and 18th-century Russia; literacy, education and the State in 17th-18th-century Europe.
