Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854

• Main Author: Bowers, Katherine (Editor) (auth)
• Other Authors: Franklin, Simon (Editor) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers 2017
• Subjects: postal service; information; maps and atlases; communication; news circulation; Russian Empire; signs and monuments; history of communication
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in R...