TY - BOOK ID - 77901106 TI - Peter the Great : the struggle for power, 1671-1725 PY - 2001 SN - 110712378X 0521030676 0511119674 0511328400 0511496699 1280154888 0511154518 051104402X 0511018398 9780511018398 9780511044021 051102875X 9780511028755 9780511119675 9780521805858 0521805856 9780511496691 9781280154881 9780521030670 9780511328404 9780511154515 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Peter KW - Peter I KW - Petr Velik KW - Alekseyevich, Pyotr KW - Veliky, Pyotr KW - Pierre le Grand KW - Russia KW - Soviet Union KW - Politics and government KW - Buṭrus, KW - Mikhaĭlov, Petr, KW - Peeter KW - Peter, KW - Petr I Alekseevich, KW - Petr KW - Petr, KW - Petro, KW - Petru, KW - Pierre KW - Pierre, KW - Pietro, KW - Piotr, KW - Pyōtoru Taitei, KW - Pyotr KW - Pyotr, KW - Romanov, Petr Alekseevich, KW - Romanov, Pyotr Alexeyevich, KW - Романов, Петр Алексеевич, KW - Петр KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901106 AB - A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals. After the early victory of Peter's boyar supporters in the 1690s, Peter turned against them and tried to rule through favourites - an experiment which ended in the establishment of a decentralized 'aristocratic' administration, followed by an equally aristocratic Senate in 1711. The aristocrats' hegemony came to an end in the wake of the affair of Peter's son, Tsarevich Aleksei, in 1718. After that moment Peter ruled through a complex group of favourites, a few aristocrats and appointees promoted through merit, and carried out his most long-lasting reforms. The outcome was a new balance of power at the centre and a new, European, conception of politics. ER -