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“Changes Are Harmful to the State”: The Concept of Reform in Russian Political Thought, 1700–1790

Ch. 5. P. 86–112.
Polskoy S.
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Keywords: history of conceptsистория понятийистория России XVIII векаRussia in XVIII centuryReformпонятие "реформа"
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Westernization as a descriptive model of modern Russian history: Critique and exploration of alternatives (2022)

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Political Reason and the Language of Change: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe
Political Reason and the Language of Change: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe
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