Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia 1880-1918 / / Melissa Kirschke Stockdale.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Stockdale, Melissa Kirschke,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

Paul N. Miliukov was one of the most formidable intellectual and political forces of Russia's late imperial period. A historian of international reputation, Miliukov eventually became the principal theoretician and leader of Russian liberalism. He helped found the country's first liberal political party, led the party's faction in the Duma, and edited an influential liberal daily. In 1917, Miliukov took the lead in organizing the first Provisional Government. Working tirelessly for a liberal order committed to social reform as well as political liberties and the rule of law, Miliukov also strove to reconcile liberalism and nationalism, championing the rights of national minorities while trying to promote the cohesion of the increasingly fragile empire.Melissa Kirschke Stockdale's biography of Miliukov's life in Russia is the most comprehensive available in any language. Drawing on his enormous published oeuvre and the five thousand folders of his personal archives in Moscow, many never before available to Western scholars, she examines Miliukov's contributions to Russian historiography, liberal thought, and nationality relations, teases out the connections between his historical writing and his political practice, and assesses his career in a European as well as a Russian context. In so doing, she illuminates the dilemmas involved in constructing a workable liberalism in an illiberal climate, dilemmas with a startling contemporary relevance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration, Titles, and Dates -- CHAPTER ONE. Youth and Student Years -- CHAPTER TWO. Political Awakening -- CHAPTER THREE. Miliukov’s Historical Thought -- CHAPTER FOUR. Scholarship and Opposition -- CHAPTER FIVE. Russian Liberalism -- CHAPTER SIX. The Revolution of 1905 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Search for Unity, 1907-1914 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The War Years -- CHAPTER NINE. Miliukov Displaced -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index