Imperial Russian Foreign Policy

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Origins Of Imperial Russian Foreign Policy:
1. Imperial consciousness in eighteenth-century Russian foreign policy E. V. Anisimov
2. The role of the Baltic in Russian foreign policy 1721–1773 Hans Bagger
Part II. Imperial Russia and the Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century:
3. Rusian projects of conquest in the eighteenth century Hugh Ragsdale
4. Runaway peasants and Russian motives for the partitions of Poland Robert E. Jones
Part III. Imperial Russia in the Coming of the Crimean War:
5. Policy traditions and the Menshikov Mission of 1853 David M. Goldfrank
6. The personal responsibility of Nicholas I for the coming of the Crimean War V. N. Vinogradov
Part IV. Imperial Russian Foreign Policy in Mid-Nineteenth Century America:
7. Russian policy in the US during the Crimean War V. N. Ponomarev
8. The sale of Alaska in the context of Russo-American relations in the nineteenth century N. N. Bolkhovitinov
Part V. Adventure and Disaster in the Late Empire:
9. Russian policy in the Balkans in the reign of Alexander II, 1855–1881 David MacKenzie
10. The foreign policy of Russia in the Far East at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries A. V. Ignatiev
11. The interaction of foreign and domestic interests in central and southeast Europe, 1900–1914 David McDonald
Part VI. Perspectives and Conclusions:
12. Persistent factors in Russian foreign policy: an interpretative essay Alfred J. Rieber.

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