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9780253208613

Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881

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    9780253208613

  • ISBN10:

    0253208610

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-06-01
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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Summary

The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander Ii represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reform of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and other domains. This volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the reforms and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them Contributors are Alexander K. AfanasOtilde;ev, John Bushnell, David Christian, Ben Eklof, Daniel Field, Peter Gatrell, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Jacob W. Kipp, Adele Lindenmeyr, Valeriia A. Nardova, Joan Neuberger, Fedor A. Petrov, Alfred J. Rieber, Natalia F. UstOtilde;iantseva, and Larissa Zakharova.

Author Biography

BEN EKLOF is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University and author of Russian Peasant Schools. JOHN BUSNELL is Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of Mutiny amid Repression. LARISSA ZAKHAROVA is Professor of History at Moscow State University. Her numerous publications on the history of late Imperial Russia include Samoderzhavie i otmena krepostnogo prava v Rossii, 1856--1861.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Abbreviations
The Great Reforms and the Historians since Stalinp. 1
Autocracy and the Reforms of 1861-1874 in Russia: Choosing Paths of Developmentp. 19
The Year of Jubileep. 40
Interest-Group Politics in the Era of the Great Reformsp. 58
The Meaning of the Great Reforms in Russian Economic Historyp. 84
A Neglected Great Reform: The Abolition of Tax Farming in Russiap. 102
The Russian Navy and the Problem of Technological Transfer: Technological Backwardness and Military-Industrial Development, 1853-1876p. 115
Miliutin and the Balkan War: Military Reform vs. Military Performancep. 139
Accountable Only to God and the Senate: Peace Mediators and the Great Reformsp. 161
Municipal Self-Government after the 1870 Reformp. 181
Crowning the Edifice: The Zemstvo, Local Self-Government, and the Constitutional Movement, 1864-1881p. 197
Jurors and Jury Trials in Imperial Russia, 1866-1885p. 214
Popular Legal Cultures: The St. Petersburg Mirovoi Sudp. 231
The University Statute of 1863: A Reconsiderationp. 247
The Rise of Voluntary Associations during the Great Reforms: The Case of Charityp. 264
Bibliographyp. 281
Contributorsp. 289
Indexp. 291
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