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From Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy After Napoleon explores how Russia's diplomats understood European security as they worked to implement the edifice of pacification and peace constructed in 1814, 1815, and 1818. In response to developments across Europe and in Spanish America, Emperor Alexander I's hopes for peace, pragmatic adaptability, and commitment to act in concert with the other great powers came fully into focus. Based on sources of Russian provenance, the book challenges characterizations of Alexander's behavior as erratic and his foreign policy as heavy-handed and expansionist. Indeed, as historians assimilate the Russian perspective on European order (as well as the perspectives of other less well-studied countries), they encounter a multifaceted Restoration built upon practices of enlightened reformism and direct experience of revolution and war.

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Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter is Emeritus Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and author of From Serf to Russian Soldier (1990); Structures of Society: Imperial Russia's ""People of Various Ranks"" (1994; Russian translation, 2002); Social Identity in Imperial Russia (1997); The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater (2003); Russia's Age of Serfdom, 1649-1861 (2008); Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia: The Teachings of Metropolitan Platon (2013); and From Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy After Napoleon (2021). Professor Wirtschafter has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Scholar, IREX exchange participant, DAAD scholar, and visiting professor at institutions of higher learning in Moscow, Paris, and Tbingen.

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