Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Introduction v
3. Contents xiii
4. 1: State and Society
5. I. The Imperial Administration and the Officials 3
6. II. The Zemstvo and Local Self-Govemment 27
7. III. The Imperial Duma 49
8. IV. The Reform of the Law Courts 67
9. V. Social Classes 92
10. 2: The Noblesse
11. VI. The Noblesse 99
12. VII. Landed Proprietors of the Old School 117
13. VIII. Proprietors of the Modern School 140
14. IX. The Landed Proprietors Since the Emancipation 160
15. 3: Urban Life
16. X. The Towns and the Mercantile Classes 175
17. XI. Moscow and the Slavophils 194
18. XII. St. Petersburg and European Influence 218
19. XIII. Lord Novgorod the Great 238
20. 4: The Peasants
21. XIV. A Peasant Family of the Old Type 253
22. XV. The Mir, or Village Community 266
23. XVI. The Serfs 288
24. XVII. The Emancipation of the Serfs 312
25. XVIII. The Emancipated Peasantry 338
26. 5: Religion
27. XIX. The Village Priest 371
28. XX. Among the Heretics 392
29. XXI. The Dissenters 407
30. XXII. Church and State 428
31. 6: Industrialization and Revolution
32. XXIII. Revolutionary Nihilism and the Reaction 443
33. XXXV. Socialist Propaganda, Revolutionaiy Agitation, and Terrorism 464
34. XXV. Industrial Progress and the Proletariat 495