Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881

Name: Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881
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ISBN: 9780253208613

ISBN-10: 0253208610

ISBN-13: 9780253208613

Edition: 1994

Authors: Ben Eklof, John Bushnell, Larissa Zakharova, John Bushnell, Larissa Zakharova

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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,…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

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.



Introduction



Abbreviations



The Great Reforms and the Historians since Stalin




Autocracy and the Reforms of 1861-1874 in Russia: Choosing Paths of Development




The Year of Jubilee




Interest-Group Politics in the Era of the Great Reforms




The Meaning of the Great Reforms in Russian Economic History




A Neglected Great Reform: The Abolition of Tax Farming in Russia




The Russian Navy and the Problem of Technological Transfer: Technological Backwardness and Military-Industrial Development, 1853-1876




Miliutin and the Balkan War: Military Reform vs. Military Performance




Accountable Only to God and the Senate: Peace Mediators and the Great Reforms




Municipal Self-Government after the 1870 Reform




Crowning the Edifice: The Zemstvo, Local Self-Government, and the Constitutional Movement, 1864-1881




Jurors and Jury Trials in Imperial Russia, 1866-1885




Popular Legal Cultures: The St. Petersburg Mirovoi Sud




The University Statute of 1863: A Reconsideration




The Rise of Voluntary Associations during the Great Reforms: The Case of Charity



Bibliography



Contributors


Index