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Paul I

Ragsdale, Hugh
Paul I
Offers the first book-length English language biography of Russian emperor Paul I (1754-1801) since a 1913 translation. Most of the essays have been written expressly for this volume. They examine Paul's education, his mental pathology, his administrative aims, curious relations with the knights of Malta and with Bonaparte, and his struggles with the threatening ideas emanating from the French Revolution.

CHF 43.90

Tsar Paul and the Question of Madness

Ragsdale, Hugh
Tsar Paul and the Question of Madness
Drawing on archival studies, revisionist historians have taken issue with the traditional view that Tsar Paul I was mad and was assassinated because of the clear danger he posed to the state. Professor Ragsdale contends that the question of Paul's mental condition is not as simple as either his detractors or modern apologists suppose. In the first full-length study to be published outside Russia, the author places the subject in a wholly new p...

CHF 132.00

The Russian Tragedy

Ragsdale, Hugh
The Russian Tragedy
This work provides an interpretive history of Russia from earliest times to today, recounting the story of Russia's past. It discusses Russia's strengths and weaknesses as a civilization, and the challenges posed by the contemporary effort to remake Russia.

CHF 92.00

The Russian Tragedy

Ragsdale, Hugh
The Russian Tragedy
This work provides an interpretive history of Russia from earliest times to today, recounting the story of Russia's past. It discusses Russia's strengths and weaknesses as a civilization, and the challenges posed by the contemporary effort to remake Russia.

CHF 201.00