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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Dating -- Introduction. Russia as a Great Power in Europe -- Chapter 1. Pacification and Peace (1815-17) -- Chapter 2. Completion of the General Alliance (1817-20) -- Chapter 3. Alliance Unity and Intervention in Naples (1820-21) -- Chapter 4. To Act in Concert (1821-22) -- Chapter 5. Spain and the European System (1820-23) -- Conclusion Russia's European Diplomacy -- Appendix. Biographies of Diplomats -- Notes -- Bibliography

This broad, panoramic view of Russian imperial society from the era of Peter the Great to the Revolution in 1917 sets forth a challenging interpretation of one of the world's most powerful and enduring monarchies. Beginning with an overview of imperial Russia's legal and institutional structures, Wirtschafter analyzes the "ruling" classes and service elites (the landowning nobility, the civil and military servicemen, the clergy) and then moves on to examine the middle groups (the raznochintsy, the commercial-industrial elites, the professionals, the intelligentsia) before turning to the peasants, townspeople, and factory workers. Wirtschafter argues provocatively that those very social, political, and legal relationships that have long been viewed as sources of conflict and crisis in fact helped to promote integration and to foster the stability that ensured Imperial Russia's survival. Social Identity in Imperial Russia will thus appeal to a wide range of readers interested in Russian history and culture, state building, and European social history

In From Victory to Peace, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter brings the Russian perspective to a critical moment in European political history. This history of Russian diplomatic thought in the years after the Congress of Vienna concerns a time when Russia and Emperor Alexander I were fully integrated into European society and politics. Wirtschafter looks at how Russia's statesmen who served Alexander I across Europe, in South America, and in Constantinople represented the Russian monarch's foreign policy and sought to act in concert with the allies. Based on archival and published sources—diplomatic communications, conference protocols, personal letters, treaty agreements, and the periodical press—this book illustrates how Russia's policymakers and diplomats responded to events on the ground as the process of implementing peace unfolded. ; Sponsors: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / UNC Press's Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP)