Russia in the nineteenth century : autocracy, reform, and social change, 1814-1914
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Bibliographic Information
Russia in the nineteenth century : autocracy, reform, and social change, 1814-1914
(The New Russian history)
Routledge, 2015, c2005
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy. Polunov explains how the major social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople, peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacted to the Great Reforms, and why, despite the emergence of a civil society and capitalist institutions, a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an alternative to the Revolution of 1917. He provides detailed portraits of many tsarist bureaucrats and political reformers, complete with quotations from their writings, to explain how the principle of autocracy, although significantly weakened by the Great Reforms in mid-century, reasserted itself under the last two emperors. Polunov stresses the relevance, for Russians in the post-Soviet period, of issues that remained unresolved in the pre-Revolutionary period, such as the question of private property in land and the relationship between state regulation and private initiative in the economy.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: On the Path to Reform
- 2: "A Time of External Slavery and Internal Freedom"
- 3: A Colossus with Feet of Clay
- 4: The End of Serfdom
- 5: The Great Reforms: Sources and Consequences
- 6: Russia's Economy and Finances after the Emancipation of the Serfs
- 7: The Opposition Movement in Post-Reform Russia: From "Thaw" to Regicide
- 8: Russia and the World, 1856-1900
- 9: Under the Banner of Unshakable Autocracy
- 10: Nicholas II: A Policy of Contradictions
- 11: Opposition and Revolution
- 12: On the Eve of Great Changes
- Conclusion
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