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Russia in the nineteenth century : autocracy, reform, and social change, 1814-1914 / Alexander Polunov ; edited by Thomas C. Owen and Larissa G. Zakharova ; translated by Marshall S. Shatz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polunov, A. IU. (Aleksandr IUrevich), 1966-
- Series:
- New Russian history.
- The new Russian history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russia--History--1801-1917.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This covers the 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. It examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy; the major social groups and how they reacted to the Great Reforms.
- Contents:
- On the path to reform
- "A time of external slavery and internal freedom"
- A colossus with feet of clay
- The end of serfdom
- The great reforms : sources and consequences
- Russia's economy and finances after the emancipation of the serfs
- The opposition movement in post-reform Russia : from "thaw" to regicide
- Russia and the world, 1856-1900
- Under the banner of unshakable autocracy
- Nicholas II : a policy of contradictions
- Opposition and revolution
- On the eve of great changes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-46049-9
- 1-315-70098-0
- 1-280-93415-8
- 9786610934157
- 0-7656-2162-2
- 9781315700984
- OCLC:
- 476082064
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