The crisis of the old order in Russia : gentry and government /

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 Revolu...

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Main Author: Manning, Roberta Thompson, 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies of the Russian Institute.
Princeton legacy library.
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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