TY - GEN N2 - Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. This work surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions. AB - Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. This work surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions. T1 - The Russian Empire 1450-1801 / AU - Kollmann, Nancy Shields, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - DK39 N1 - This edition peviously issued in print: 2017. ID - 798666 SN - 9780191822803 TI - The Russian Empire 1450-1801 / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280513.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280513.001.0001 ER -