This collection provides scholars and students with a wide-ranging overview of the issues, events and personalities of the two turbulent decades before the 1917 revolution in Russia.
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"Indisputably strong on authoritative summary and historiographical orientation ... Anna Geifman comes up with thought-provoking fresh insights." (The Russian Review)
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This stirring collection investigates the issues, events & personalities of the two turbulent decades before the 1917 revolution in Russia. "Russia Under the Last Tsar" brings together the most recent scholarship - including new discoveries in the Russian archives following the fall of Communism - to analyze the motivations & activities of the various political parties operating during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, nicknamed by his opponents "Nicholas the Last."
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Quite an interesting collection of essays which mainly describe the institutional organization (the Duma and the Council of State)along with the political parties in Nicholas II's Russia, and other essays concerning the security police, terrorism, the state of nationalities and ethnic minorities, antisemitism and the role played by the Orthodox Church. The best thing about this book is that it provides with an accurate information about political forces in the twilight of tsarism, something very few books provide, as most of them deal with the October revolution globally, taking for granted that Bolsheviks were the almost unique political left party and that the right was dominated by aristocrats, when the truth is that Bolsheviks were the minority (they didn't in fact lead a revolution in 1917 but a coup d'état)among the Mensheviks, the Social-revolutionaries, the Social-democrats and the Anarchists. Regarding the right-wing parties, the author gives a brillant account of traditionalists, conservative, ultra-religious, monarchic and liberals. As one realizes reading this book, political forces in Russia were much more fragmented than many people think, something which explains the complexity of the events to come over Russia in 1917 and afterwards.
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At its Second Congress in 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDRP, founded 1898) split into the Bolshevik, or majority faction, and the Menshevik, or minority one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national curiae, imperial security police, okhrannoe otdelenie, gendarme stations, diocesan assembly, diocesan assemblies, gendarme officers, chief procurator, progressive bloc, senior police officials, constitutional experiment, revolutionary disturbances, local government reform, parish clergy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
State Council, New York, Russian Revolution, Union of October, State Duma, October Manifesto, Second Duma, Third Duma, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, People's Will, Cambridge University Press, Constitutional Democrats, February Revolution, Russian Review, Soviet Union, Indiana University Press, Socialist Revolutionaries, Sozialrevolutionaere Partei, Stanford University Press, Columbia University, Cornell University Press, Fundamental Laws, Union of the Russian People, Fourth Duma New!
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At its Second Congress in 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDRP, founded 1898) split into the Bolshevik, or majority faction, and the Menshevik, or minority one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national curiae, imperial security police, okhrannoe otdelenie, gendarme stations, diocesan assembly, diocesan assemblies, gendarme officers, chief procurator, progressive bloc, senior police officials, constitutional experiment, revolutionary disturbances, local government reform, parish clergy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
State Council, New York, Russian Revolution, Union of October, State Duma, October Manifesto, Second Duma, Third Duma, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, People's Will, Cambridge University Press, Constitutional Democrats, February Revolution, Russian Review, Soviet Union, Indiana University Press, Socialist Revolutionaries, Sozialrevolutionaere Partei, Stanford University Press, Columbia University, Cornell University Press, Fundamental Laws, Union of the Russian People, Fourth Duma New!
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- Thou Shalt Kill by Anna Geifman on 10 pages
- The Origins of Bolshevism by Theodore Dan on 6 pages
- Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin by Bertram D. Wolfe on 5 pages
- Three Who Made a Revolution by Bertram David Wolfe on 5 pages
- Civil Rights in Imperial Russia by Olga Crisp on page 132, page 235, and page 288
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