The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia : : Gentry and Government / / Roberta Thompson Manning.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Manning, Roberta Thompson,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5324
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.)

Focusing on the role of the landowning gentry in the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907, Roberta Manning explores the complex relationship between this traditional social and political elite and the imperial Russian government in the period between the abolition of serfdom and the February Revolution of 1917. In contrast to the commonly accepted view that the 1905 Revolution significantly expanded the circle of people involved in government, Professor Manning argues that the gentry became Russia's dominant political force after the 1907 coup d'etat. Overwhelmed after Emancipation by economic crisis and a devastating erosion of their role in government service, the gentry utilized the revitalized assemblies of the nobility and the newly founded zemstvos first to agitate for and then to dominate the representative institutions created by the 1905 Revolution.Through a vast array of primary sources, Professor Manning considers the acquisitions and consequences of the gentry's augmented political role and presents an updated account of the peasant rebellions of 1905-1907 and their impact on the gentry. Included is a brilliant portrayal of P.A. Stolypin, the period's most gifted gentry statesman, and of the defeat, accomplished with the aid of gentry pressure groups, of his reform program, the last comprehensive effort to restructure the political order of Imperial Russia.Studies of this period of Russian history have generally focused on the dramatic confrontation between the Old Regime and its revolutionary adversaries. Here Professor Manning illuminates the equally fateful conflicts within the Russian upper classes.Roberta Thompson Manning is Associate Professor at Boston College.Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University.Originally published in 1983.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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF APPENDICES -- TRANSLITERATION AND TERMINOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. THE TURN TO THE LAND AND LOCALITIES, 1861-1905 -- 1. The Crisis of Gentry Landownership -- 2. The Political Crisis of the Landed Gentry -- 3. The Rise of a Gentry Opposition -- II. THE PROVINCIAL GENTRY IN REVOLUTION, 1904-1905 -- 4. Prelude to Revolution: The November 1904 Zemstvo Congress and the Response of the Provincial Gentry -- 5. Concessions, Conflict, and Reconciliation: February to May 1905 -- 6. The Mad Summer of 1905 -- III. THE GENTRY REACTION, 1905-1906 -- 7. The Parting of the Ways -- 8. The Days of Freedom -- 9. The Zemstvo Reaction -- IV. THE PROVINCIAL GENTRY IN COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1906-1907 -- 10. The First State Duma, the Government, and the Land Question -- 11. The United Nobility and the Crisis of the First Duma -- 12. Stolypin and the Inter-Duma Period: The Political Consolidation of the Right -- 13. The Second State Duma and the Zemstvo Congress of the Right- Wing Parties -- V. A PYRRHIC VICTORY, 1907-1917 -- 14. The Gentry Reaction: The Social Basis of the June 3 System -- 15. The Legacy of June 3 and the Crisis of the Old Order -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- STUDIES OF THE RUSSIAN INSTITUTE