Imperial Russian Project

Alfred J. Rieber is a premier historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He is University Professor Emeritus at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Yanni Kotsonis is an associate professor in the Departments of History and of Russian and Slavic Studies and founding Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.

• PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS1. The Petrine Vision and Its FatePART TWO: CULTURAL TRANSFER, INTEREST GROUPS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH2. The Aufklärung in Russia3. The Biogenetic Model4. The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group5. The Engineers6. The Economists7. Origin of the Reutern System8. The Reutern System in Operation9. Patronage and ProfessionalismPART THREE: SOCIAL STRUCTURES IN A DIVIDED POLITY10. The Social Identification of the Nobility11. The Sedimentary Society12. Social and Political Fragmentation

"Alfred Rieber belong to the first generation of postwar Russian experts in the United States, yet sixty years later he is still going strong, producing research of great originality and powerful insight. This collection of articles – too rich for a review to do justice – prsents a searching and distinctive interpretation of the evolution of Imperial Russia from the eighteenth to the twentieth century."- Geoffrey Hosking, University College London (Journal of Modern History, September 2019) "The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society." - Richard Wortman (Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History) "The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society. Rieber places these developments in the context of the abiding limits to progress: uncompromising autocratic authority, the backwardness of the economy, poorly articulated social boundaries and identities, as well as the vastness of the empire."- Richard Wortman (Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History)