The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714
The reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), long regarded as the turbaning point in the Europeanization of Russia, witnessed the establishment of Russia's first modern navy, the Azov Sea fleet. Its creation evokes a fundamental question about the era: was Peter a reformer or a revolutionary? This three-part study examines Russia's maritime experience in the 17th and early 18th centuries in order to address this central question. The author argues that Peter's development of the navy was revolutionary in the scale and level of technology brought to fruition through the reform of existing political and social structures.
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The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714
The reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), long regarded as the turbaning point in the Europeanization of Russia, witnessed the establishment of Russia's first modern navy, the Azov Sea fleet. Its creation evokes a fundamental question about the era: was Peter a reformer or a revolutionary? This three-part study examines Russia's maritime experience in the 17th and early 18th centuries in order to address this central question. The author argues that Peter's development of the navy was revolutionary in the scale and level of technology brought to fruition through the reform of existing political and social structures.
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The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714

The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714

by Edward Phillips
The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714

The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714

by Edward Phillips

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The reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), long regarded as the turbaning point in the Europeanization of Russia, witnessed the establishment of Russia's first modern navy, the Azov Sea fleet. Its creation evokes a fundamental question about the era: was Peter a reformer or a revolutionary? This three-part study examines Russia's maritime experience in the 17th and early 18th centuries in order to address this central question. The author argues that Peter's development of the navy was revolutionary in the scale and level of technology brought to fruition through the reform of existing political and social structures.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313295201
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/23/1995
Series: Contributions in Military Studies , #159
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile: 1600L (what's this?)

About the Author

EDWARD J. PHILLIPS is currently serving as a special projects consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He has been a lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and the University of Maryland at College Park.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Russia and the Sea Before the Seventeenth Century
Precedents
The First Romanovs and the Sea (The Seventeenth Century)
Preparations
Beginnings, 1688-1696
The Grand Embassy to Europe, 1697-1698
Permanence
New Enterprises, Old Solutions
Growth, Change, and Mission, 1697-1700
Admiralty Administration and Finances, 1700-1710
Renewal and Ruin, 1700-1712
The Lessons of Azov: The Baltic Fleet, 1702-1715
Conclusion: The Navy and Peter the Great's Russia
Appendix (Tables 1-19)
Glossary of Ship Types
Bibliography
Index

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