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work_yh7siapthbd6lgyupaekvc6fmu	Karen Rasmussen	Russia Under Catherine The Great, vol. 2: Catherine The Great's Instruction (Nakaz) To The Legislative Commission, 1767. Edited by Paul Dukes. Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1977. 129 pp. $12.00, cloth. $5.50, paper	1979	1	.pdf	application/pdf	674	71	70	This volume presents a recently discovered English translation of Catherine's Instruction to the Legislative Commission of 1767-68. by Robert Allen of the Library of Congress, Professor Dukes introduces it as a translation which was "almost certainly" commissioned by Sir George Macartney—then But Dukes finds the "Macartney" translation superior to the 1768 Chechulin, Dukes has appended to the Macartney text the pair of supplemental chapters Commission, which Dukes himself translated. Of the two English translations, this one appears superior. text, Dukes's notes follow it. Near the end of his introduction Dukes writes that to understand the Instruction, already receiving serious attention, however. include the results of such attention in this book. Dr. Cochrane has surely earned his degree with this well-researched dissertation. Though Cochrane evidently did not have direct access to Soviet archives, he has made excellent use of the materials made available by materials provided by helpful scholars. down the Nechaev materials available in the West.	./cache/work_yh7siapthbd6lgyupaekvc6fmu.pdf	./txt/work_yh7siapthbd6lgyupaekvc6fmu.txt