Introduction: Russian Monarchy and the Symbolic Sphere

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Permissions IX
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Introduction: Russian Monarchy and the Symbolic Sphere XIII
6. Part I Russian Monarchy and Law
7. 1. Russian Monarchy and the Rule of Law: New Considerations of the Court Reform of 1864 3
8. 2. The Representation of Dynasty and “Fundamental Laws” in the Evolution of Russian Monarchy 33
9. 3. Review of Anatolii Viktorovich Remnev, Samoderzhavnoe Pravitel’stvo: Komitet Ministrov v sisteme vysshego upravlenia Rossiiskoi imperii (vtoraia polovina XIX—nachalo XX veka) 74
10. Part II Scenarios of Family and Nation
11. 4. Th e Russian Empress as Mother 89
12. 5. The Russian Imperial Family as Symbol 106
13. Part III Narratives of Monarch and Nation
14. 6. The Invention of Tradition and the Representation of Russian Monarchy 137
15. 7. National Narratives in the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Russian Monarchy 152
16. 8. Moscow and Petersburg: The Problem of Political Center in Tsarist Russia, 1881-1914 170
17. 9. Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905 199
18. Part IV Russian Monarchy and the Imperial State
19. 10. The Russian Empire and Russian Monarchy: Th e Problem of Russian Nationalism 221
20. 11. The “Integrity” (Tselost ’) of the State in Imperial Russian Representation 233
21. 12. The Tsar and Empire: Representation of the Monarchy and Symbolic Integration in Imperial Russia 259
22. Richard S. Wortman: A Bibliography (1962-2013) by Ernest A. Zitser 281
23. Index 295