Scenarios of Power (ebook)

Argumento de Scenarios of Power (ebook)

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "A brief review can hardly do justice to the wealth of information and sophistication of analysis here; if the outline of Wortman's story is familiar, his telling of it is refreshingly new. . . . Eschewing the kind of treacly romanticism that tends to transform [the tsars] with their many egregious faults into tragic heroes, Wortman enriches our understanding of why they made certain personal choices so ill-suited for the nation they undeniably loved."--Louise McReynolds, Slavic Review

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "A major contribution to the history of Russia, one from which every serious student of that country's tragic destiny will learn."--Abbott Gleason, Journal of Modern History

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "The formidable variety of evidence Wortman has amassed in this volume for his novel conclusions about the nature of Russian autocracy and downfall of the Romanovs puts Scenarios of Power at the top of the reading list not just for the serious students of Imperial Russia but for all scholars interested in the power of cultural symbols to shape history."--Priscilla Roosevelt, Russian Review

Co-Winner of the 2006 Etkind Prize, Best Book by a Western Scholar on Russian Literature/Culture, European University at St. Petersburg
Winner of the 2000 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "[This book] is not just a history of regal rhetoric and rituals but a rich and vivid panorama of the manners and sensibilities, of the educational theories and systems of belief, of the art and literature, the music and the architecture by which the Russian monarchy shaped a cultural language to evoke loyalty, reverence, and awe from its servitors and subjects."--Orlando Figes, Times Literary Supplement0ILLUSTRATIONS vii
ABBREVIATIONS ix
PREFATORY NOTE xi

INTRODUCTION: Scenarios of Power 1

PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN MYTH 7

CHAPTER ONE: Signs of Empire 9
CHAPTER TWO: Peter the Great 21
CHAPTER THREE: Olympian Scenarios 40
CHAPTER FOUR: The Education of Princes and the Dilemma of Neoclassicism 73
CHAPTER FIVE: The Emperor Paul I 85
CHAPTER SIX: The Angel on the Throne 98
CHAPTER SEVEN: Nicholas I 120
CHAPTER EIGHT: Epitomes of the Nation 142
CHAPTER NINE: Parents and Son 166
CHAPTER TEN: Alexander II and the Scenario of Love 189
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Tsar-Emancipator 205
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Crisis of Autocracy 219

PART TWO: A NATIONAL MYTH 243

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Making of a Russian Tsar 245
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Inauguration of a National Myth 263
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Resurrection of Muscovy 282
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Life and Death of a Russian Tsar 303
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Nicholas II as Heir and Husband 317
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Accession and Coronation of Nicholas II 334
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Demonstrations of Godliness 347
CHAPTER TWENTY: Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905 361
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Historical Celebrations 377
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Nicholas II and World War I 397

CONCLUSION 411
NOTES 415
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 449
INDEX 453