8. The Days of Freedom

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. LIST OF TABLES xi
5. LIST OF APPENDICES xii
6. TRANSLITERATION AND TERMINOLOGY xiii
7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiv
8. I. THE TURN TO THE LAND AND LOCALITIES, 1861-1905
9. 1. The Crisis of Gentry Landownership 1
10. 2. The Political Crisis of the Landed Gentry 25
11. 3. The Rise of a Gentry Opposition 45
12. II. THE PROVINCIAL GENTRY IN REVOLUTION, 1904-1905
13. 4. Prelude to Revolution: The November 1904 Zemstvo Congress and the Response of the Provincial Gentry 67
14. 5. Concessions, Conflict, and Reconciliation: February to May 1905 89
15. 6. The Mad Summer of 1905 106
16. III. THE GENTRY REACTION, 1905-1906
17. 7. The Parting of the Ways 131
18. 8. The Days of Freedom 138
19. 9. The Zemstvo Reaction 177
20. IV. THE PROVINCIAL GENTRY IN COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1906-1907
21. 10. The First State Duma, the Government, and the Land Question 205
22. 11. The United Nobility and the Crisis of the First Duma 229
23. 12. Stolypin and the Inter-Duma Period: The Political Consolidation of the Right 260
24. 13. The Second State Duma and the Zemstvo Congress of the Right- Wing Parties 293
25. V. A PYRRHIC VICTORY, 1907-1917
26. 14. The Gentry Reaction: The Social Basis of the June 3 System 325
27. 15. The Legacy of June 3 and the Crisis of the Old Order 357
28. APPENDICES 373
29. NOTES 401
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 513
31. INDEX 547
32. STUDIES OF THE RUSSIAN INSTITUTE 557