TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taki,Victor
TI  - Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834
T2  - Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Series
SN  - 9789633863831
AV  - DK197 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Budapest
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front cover -- Front matter -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Early Encounters -- Russian-Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the Phanariot Regime -- The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji and the Russian Protectorate -- Russian Occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806-1812 -- Church Policies under Russian Occupation -- Chapter II: Challenges of Empire-Building in a Revolutionary Age -- The "Greek Project" of Ioannis Kapodistrias -- The Bessarabian Experiment of Alexander I -- Russia's Eastern Policy and Stroganov's Mission -- Kapodistrias, Alexander I, and the Greek Rebellion -- Chapter III: The Uprisings of 1821 and Their Impact -- 1821 and Anti-Greek Sentiment in Moldavia and Wallachia -- Tensions among the Boyars and Their Projects of Reform -- Moldavian Boyar Radicals and Conservatives -- The Convention of Akkerman -- Chapter IV: From Akkerman (1826) to Adrianople (1829) -- The Russian Empire and the Elites of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1826-28 -- The War of 1828-29 and the Russian Occupation of the Principalities -- The Genesis of the Reform Agenda -- Ministerial Instructions and the Formation of the Committee of Reform -- The Peace of Adrianople -- Chapter V: The Organic Statutes and Russia's Eastern Policy -- Boyar Opposition to the Organic Statutes -- The Affair of Sion and Its Consequences -- The Adoption of the Organic Statutes by the Assemblies of Revision -- Kiselev's Vision of the Principalities and Russia's Eastern Policy -- Chapter VI: A Well-Ordered Police State on the Danube -- Plague Epidemics and the Creation of the Danubian Quarantine -- The Creation of Militia and Police Reform -- Fiscal Reform and Peasant Obligations -- Administrative and Judiciary Reform -- Foreign Subjects, Dedicated Monasteries, and Censorship; Chapter VII: Russian Policies in Moldavia and Wallachia After 1834 -- Russia and the Problem of Unification of the Principalities -- Political Tensions in Moldavia and Wallachia in the Late 1830s -- A Cordon Sanitaire for the Empire? -- The Limits of Hegemony -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
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