Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects

Description

Unrivalled collection of contemporary British scholarship on the question of the stability of late imperial Russia; Useful summary of the historiography of the topics covered, including political, economic, social, cultural, and international history; Contains original accounts of some of the intellectuals of the time: Barnett's study of Tugan-Baranovsky and the late imperial economy; Frame's account of the theatrical impresarios; White's examination of M. N. Pokrovskii; Students will particularly appreciate the chapters on Nicholas II, the workers, the peasants, the security police, parliamentarianism, the revolutionaries, and the security police Contents Contributors 1 Introduction Notes 2 Autocracy in crisis: Nicholas the last Notes 3 Late imperial constitutionalism Notes 4 The Okhrana: security policing in late imperial Russia Notes 5 Culture, patronage and civil society: theatrical impresarios in late imperial Russia Notes 6 Tugan-Baranovsky and The Russian Factory Notes 7 Late imperial urban workers Notes 8 Late imperial peasants Notes 9 Late imperial revolutionaries Notes 10 The origins, development and demise of M. N. Pokrovskii's interpretation of Russian history Notes 11 Late imperial Russia in the imperial world Notes Index