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Book SynopsisAs he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian society. His broader objective,
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xvii*Abbreviations, pg. xix*Prologue, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. The Abolition of Serfdom, pg. 11*CHAPTER II. The "First Crisis of Autocracy": The Reforms of Loris-Melikov and the Kakhanov Commission, pg. 46*CHAPTER III. Rural Counterreform in the 1880s: The Reassertion of Unrestricted Autocratic Authority, pg. 83*CHAPTER IV. Toward an Era of National Politics, 1894-1904, pg. 119*CHAPTER V. From the October Manifesto to the First Duma: The Witte Ministry and the Revolution of 1905, pg. 166*CHAPTER VI. "Reform at a Time of Revolution": Government and Politics under the Stolypin Ministry, July 1906-June 1907, pg. 195*CHAPTER VII. Provincial Politics and Local Reform: Conflicting Visions of the Nation, 1907-1909, pg. 243*CHAPTER VIII. Isolation and Defeat: Bureaucratic Reform on the Eve of the War, pg. 280*Conclusion, pg. 305*Glossary, pg. 311*Bibliography, pg. 317*Index, pg. 341
