Author : Abraham Ascher
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804745475
This is the first comprehensive biography in any language of Russia's leading statesman in the period following the Revolution of 1905. Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911, when he was assassinated, in post-1905 Russia P. A. Stolypin was virtually the only man who seemed to have a clear notion of how to reform the socioeconomic and political system of the empire.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Schaeffer
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Alexandra S. Korros
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742515383
In A Reluctant Parliament, noted historian Alexandra S. Korros deftly explores the organization and operation of the Russian Empire's State Council in the wake of the 1905 revolution. Korros dismisses the traditional interpretation that the State Council was a monolithic opponent to reform and focuses on the complex political maneuvering between those of its members anxious to make the legislative chambers work, and those determined to turn Russia away from the path of constitutional monarchy. Based on extensive research on primary sources-many of which have not been previously examined--A Reluctant Parliament is an important new addition to the field of Russian History.
Author : George Tokmakoff
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : University Press of America
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
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Author : Aleksandr V. Zenʹkovskiĭ
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Russia
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Author : Theodore Taranovski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521451772
This volume provides a comparative study of the problems and prospects of reform in modern Russian history. Drawn from contributions to a May 1990 conference sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the book raises important methodological and historiographic questions regarding the content, scope, and significance of various reform efforts, ranging from the Great Reforms of tsar Alexander II to attempts to salvage the Soviet system undertaken by Khrushchev and Gorbachev. One of the key issues raised is whether various attempts to modernise the political and social system were a series of cyclical failures or demonstrate a pattern of progressive development.Reform in Modern Russian History favours the second mode of interpretation and provides an excellent background for all who want to understand the Gorbachev era and contemporary Russian politics.
Author : Peter Enticott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317245520
There is a widespread notion that Russia is forever fated to be an authoritarian country where liberalism and democracy can never make real progress. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century there was an extremely influential “liberationist” movement which culminated in the formation of a modern, Western-style liberal party, the Constitutional Democrats or “Kadets”. The book provides a comprehensive history of the rise of the Kadets, focusing, in particular, on the revolutionary years 1905-06. It outlines how they dominated the first Duma elected by the people and analyses their policies, social composition and political tactics. The book challenges the view (shared by many historians) that the Kadets were inherently extreme, doctrinaire or unwilling to compromise, and argues that their eventual failure was primarily due to the intransigence of the old régime. The Russian Liberals and the Revolution of 1905 illustrates, in detail, that the Kadets offered a moderate alternative to reaction on the one hand and revolution on the other.
Author : Paul Robinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501772163
Russian Liberalism charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms by the Russian and Soviet governments at various points in time. Paul Robinson's comprehensive survey covers the entire period from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Robinson demonstrates that liberalism has always lacked strong roots in the Russian population, being largely espoused by a narrow group of intellectuals whose culture it has reflected, and has tended toward a form of historical determinism that sees Russia as destined to become like the West. Many see the current political struggle between Russia and the West as being in part a conflict between the liberal West and an illiberal Russia. By explaining the historical causes of liberalism's failure in that country, Russian Liberalism offers an understanding of a significant aspect of contemporary international affairs. After Putin's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, understanding Russian political thought is a matter of considerable importance.
Author : Stephen F. Williams
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081794723X
An examination of property rights reforms in Russia before the revolution reveals the advantages and pitfalls of liberal democracy in action—from a government that could be described as neither liberal nor democratic. The author analyzes whether truly liberal reform can be effectively established from above versus from the bottom up—or whether it is simply a product of exceptional historical circumstances.
Author : Paul Robinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501747355
Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural, political, and social-economic conservatism in Russia, Russian Conservatism demonstrates that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia's present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia's future, for better or for worse, in the years to come.
