Reforming Rural Russia ：State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914 ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Wcislo Francis William;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400861231

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691055749

Subject： K5 European History

Keyword： 欧洲史

Language： ENG

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As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian society. His broader objective, however, is to use the issue of autocratic politics to probe the character and evolution of bureaucratic mentalit in this period.

Wcislo links the social, psychological, ideological, and institutional nexus of the bureaucracy with its social underpinnings in rural society and lays bare the connections of the bureaucratic world with its traditional social base among the service nobility and the peasantry. Placing the conflicting views of officials within the context of the two political cultures of old regime society, he shows how bureaucratic reformers anxious to promote civic culture were undermined by defenders of traditional autocracy and the society of service estates (soslovie) with which that autocracy had coexisted. This defense of tradition and the resulting failure of reformist initiatives were fundamental to the crisis of Russia in the early twentieth century.

Originally published in 1990.

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue

I The Abolition of Serfdom

II The "First Crisis of Autocracy": The Reforms of Loris-Melikov and the Kakhanov Commission

III Rural Counterreform in the 1880s: The Reassertion of Unrestricted Autocratic Authority

IV Toward an Era of National Politics, 1894-1904

V From the October Manifesto to the First Duma: The Witte Ministry and the Revolution of 1905

VI "Reform at a Time of Revolution": Government and Politics Under the Stolypin Ministry, July 1906-June 1907

VII Provincial Politics and Local Reform: Conflicting Visions of the Nation, 1907-1909

VIII Isolation and Defeat: Bureaucratic Reform on the Eve of the War

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Published Imperial Government Documents

Newspapers, Journals, Encyclopedias

Published Materials of Provincial Zemstvo Assemblies

Dissertations

Other Sources

Index

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