Forging a unitary state : Russia's management of the Eurasian space, 1650-1850.

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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part I. The Western Theatre: The Struggle for Northwestern Eurasia -- 1 Laying the Foundations, 1650-1775 -- The Geopolitical Setting -- Hesitant Integration -- Trade, Religion, and Law -- 2 Full Integration, 1775-1815 -- Territorial and Administrative Integration -- Religion and Economy -- The Baltic Provinces -- 3 Unitary State or Empire? 1815-1855 -- Civil Administration and the Army -- Society, Law, and Trade -- On the Road to Disintegration -- Conclusion to Part I: The Western Theatre -- Part II. The Southern Theatre Reaches the Sea -- 4 Laying the Foundations, 1650-1725 -- The Geopolitical Setting -- The Cossacks -- Society, Religion, and Trade -- 5 Toward Full Integration, 1725-1796 -- Civil and Military Administration -- Ecclesiastical and Legal Integration -- The Ethnographic Map -- 6 Unitary State or Empire? 1796-1855 -- Regional Integration -- Fiscal and Commercial Integration -- The First Cracks -- Conclusion to Part II: The Southern Theatre -- Part III. The Eastern Theatre: The Advance toward the Mountains -- Introduction to Part III: The Eastern Theatre -- 7 Laying the Foundations, 1650-1730 -- The Geopolitical Setting -- The Expanding Russian Core -- Agents of Integration -- 8 The Progress of Integration, 1731-1782 -- The Military Structure -- Land, Peoples, Religions -- Fiscal and Commercial Integration -- 9 Unitary State or Empire? 1782-1830 -- The Administrative Infrastructure -- Judicial Integration -- Economic Integration -- Conclusion to Part III: The Eastern Theatre -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Was Russia truly an empire respectful of the differences among its constituent parts or was it a unitary state seeking to create complete homogeneity?.