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Russia : on the eve of war and revolution / by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace ; edited and introduced by Cyril E. Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919, author.
- Series:
- Princeton legacy library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants--Soviet Union.
- Peasants.
- Industries--Soviet Union--History--19th century.
- Industries.
- Russia--Politics and government--1801-1917.
- Russia.
- Soviet Union--Nobility.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (544 pages).
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1984]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The result of six years of study and travel in pre-Soviet Russia, this work by a major British journalist provides a vivid description of daily life under the last three Tsars, in the turbulent age following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction / Black, Cyril Ε.
- Contents
- 1: State and Society
- I. The Imperial Administration and the Officials
- II. The Zemstvo and Local Self-Govemment
- III. The Imperial Duma
- IV. The Reform of the Law Courts
- V. Social Classes
- 2: The Noblesse
- VI. The Noblesse
- VII. Landed Proprietors of the Old School
- VIII. Proprietors of the Modern School
- IX. The Landed Proprietors Since the Emancipation
- 3: Urban Life
- X. The Towns and the Mercantile Classes
- XI. Moscow and the Slavophils
- XII. St. Petersburg and European Influence
- XIII. Lord Novgorod the Great
- 4: The Peasants
- XIV. A Peasant Family of the Old Type
- XV. The Mir, or Village Community
- XVI. The Serfs
- XVII. The Emancipation of the Serfs
- XVIII. The Emancipated Peasantry
- 5: Religion
- XIX. The Village Priest
- XX. Among the Heretics
- XXI. The Dissenters
- XXII. Church and State
- 6: Industrialization and Revolution
- XXIII. Revolutionary Nihilism and the Reaction
- XXXV. Socialist Propaganda, Revolutionaiy Agitation, and Terrorism
- XXV. Industrial Progress and the Proletariat
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- Reprint. Originally published : New York : Vintage Books, c1961. (Vintage Russian library).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780691612775
- 0691612773
- 9780691640679
- 069164067X
- 9780691007748
- 0691007748
- 9781400857340
- 1400857341
- OCLC:
- 889251944
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