Russia : : On the Eve of War and Revolution / / Donald Mackenzie Wallace; ed. by Cyril E. Black.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie,
• HerausgeberIn: Black, Cyril E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Black, Cyril Ε.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 514
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)

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 Libr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• 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