Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Prologue 1
7. CHAPTER I. The Abolition of Serfdom 11
8. CHAPTER II. The “First Crisis of Autocracy”: The Reforms of Loris-Melikov and the Kakhanov Commission 46
9. CHAPTER III. Rural Counterreform in the 1880s: The Reassertion of Unrestricted Autocratic Authority 83
10. CHAPTER IV. Toward an Era of National Politics, 1894–1904 119
11. CHAPTER V. From the October Manifesto to the First Duma: The Witte Ministry and the Revolution of 1905 166
12. CHAPTER VI. “Reform at a Time of Revolution”: Government and Politics under the Stolypin Ministry, July 1906–June 1907 195
13. CHAPTER VII. Provincial Politics and Local Reform: Conflicting Visions of the Nation, 1907–1909 243
14. CHAPTER VIII. Isolation and Defeat: Bureaucratic Reform on the Eve of the War 280
15. Conclusion 305
16. Glossary 311
17. Bibliography 317
18. Index 341
19. Backmatter 348