The relationship between German speakers, German states and their non-German counterparts in Central and East Europe has been a fundamental feature of European history. The twelve essays in this volume address key aspects of this complex and multifaceted relationship which, in different times and places, has been marked by friendship and cooperation as well as enmity and strife.
This collection, which honors Anthony G. Cross and his work on Imperial Russia's eighteenth-century culture and connections with Britain, brings together contributions from sixteen leading scholar in the field of eighteenth-century Russian studies. The essays address a wide range of topics in the diplomatic, social, cultural, literary, and linguistic history of the period, including its international dimensions, and represent a significant addition to scholarship on Russia's "long" eighteenth century.
This volume brings together forty papers from the Study Group's very successful international conference held in Wittenberg in 2004. The contributors include scholars from Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy and the USA: papers are written in English and in Russian. Topics range widely over the life of the Empire and its emerging modern society, institutions and discourses. The volume brings together new research on literature and its social context, on cultural models and reception, on social groups and individuals, on history, law and economy: it offers an exciting interdisciplinary insight into Imperial Russia in the 'long' eighteenth century.