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John P. LeDonne’s Forging of a Unitary State represents the culmination of a long and illustrious career in the study of various aspects of Russia’s early-modern experience. This review offers a critical assessment of this important monograph, focusing above all on the author’s contrarian conception of Russia-as-empire and his defiant determination to shun the fashionable in favor of the fundamental. It pays particular attention to LeDonne’s claim that in the crucial period between the reigns of Aleksei Mikhailovich (1645–76) and Nicholas I (1825–55) Russia was aspiring to construct not an empire rooted in difference, but a unitary state featuring broadly homogeneous territorial organization, institutions, and practices. It also explores “superstratification,” LeDonne’s distinct conception of elite integration. It ends with questions that remain unanswered in LeDonne’s account.
约翰·P·勒多恩（John P.LeDonne）的《建立一个统一的国家》（Forging of a Unitary State）代表了他在研究俄罗斯早期现代经验各个方面的漫长而杰出的职业生涯的顶峰。这篇综述对这本重要的专著进行了批判性的评价，重点是作者对俄罗斯帝国的逆向观念，以及他避开时尚而偏向基本的挑衅决心。它特别关注LeDonne的主张，即在Aleksei Mikhailovich（1645–76）和Nicholas I（1825–55）统治之间的关键时期，俄罗斯渴望建立的不是一个植根于差异的帝国，而是一个具有广泛同质的领土组织、制度和实践的单一国家。它还探讨了“超级批准”，即勒多恩对精英融合的独特概念。它以LeDonne的叙述中仍然没有答案的问题结束。
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