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Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-554) and index.

Contents

The nautical turn -- Military modernization -- Bureaucratic revolution -- Science and literature -- The language question.

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Summary

The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture - a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture.

The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture--a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. The author of seminal works on visual culture in the Petrine era, Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture. The forceful institutionalization of the tsar's reforms--the establishment of a navy, modernization of the army, restructuring of the government, introduction of new arts and sciences--had an enormous impact on language. Cracraft details the transmission to Russia of contemporary European naval, military, bureaucratic, legal, scientific, and literary norms and their corresponding lexical and other linguistic effects. This crucial first stage in the development of a "modern" verbal culture in Russia saw the translation and publication of a wholly unprecedented number of textbooks and treatises; the establishment of new printing presses and the introduction of a new alphabet; the compilation, for the first time, of grammars and dictionaries of Russian; and the initial standardization, in consequence, of the modern Russian literary language. Peter's creation of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the chief agency advancing these reforms, is also highlighted. In the conclusion to his masterwork, Cracraft deftly pulls together the Petrine reforms in verbal and visual culture to portray a revolution that would have dramatic consequences for Russia, and for the world

Language

English.

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JSTOR

Subject

Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725.

Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725. (OCoLC)fst00061539

Russia (Federation) -- History -- Peter I, 1689-1725.

Russia -- History -- Peter I, 1689-1725.

Russie -- Histoire -- 1689-1725 (Pierre Ier)

HISTORY.

Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312

Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050

HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

Cultuurverandering.

Chronological Term

1689-1725

Genre/Form

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Other Form:

Print version: Cracraft, James. Petrine revolution in Russian culture. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004 0674013166 9780674013162 (DLC) 2004040581 (OCoLC)55686862

ISBN

9780674029965 (electronic bk.)

0674029968 (electronic bk.)

9780674013162

0674013166

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10.4159/9780674029965 doi