Readings in Russian civilization. Volume II, Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 / edited, with introductory notes, by Thomas Riha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riha, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Russia--Social conditions.

Russia.

Russia--History--1613-1917.

Russia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

2d ed., rev.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be

Contents:

Cover; Contents Volume II; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; 18 Russia under Peter the Great; 19 Lomonosov; 20 Catherine the Great's ""Instructions""; 21 The Legislative Commission of 1767; 22 A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow; 23 Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia; 24 The Decembrists; 25 Apology of a Madman; 26 Letter to Gogol; 27 Young Moscow; 28 What is Oblomovism?; 29 Going to the People; 30 From a Village Diary; 31 Killing an Emperor; 32 A Slavophile Statement; 33 The Slav Role in World Civilization; 34 The Falsehood of Democracy

35 Russian Liberals 36 Industrial Workers in the 1880's; 37 An Economic Policy for the Empire; 38 The National Problem in Russia; 39 The Speech from the Throne; 40 The Government's Declaration to the First Duma; 41 We Need a Great Russia; 42 Memorandum to Nicholas II; 43 The Nature of Imperial Russian Society; Chronology; Correlation Tables; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612070167

9781282070165

1282070169

9780226718446

0226718441

OCLC:

781292119