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Book SynopsisThe Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander I represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century Russia's attempt at peaceful reforms.
Trade Review"[The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." The Historian
Table of ContentsIntroductions: Ben Eklof
Abbreviations
I. The Great Reforms and the Historians since Stalin: Abbott Gleason
Part I State and Reform
II. Autocracy and the Reforms of 1861-1874 in Russia: Choosing Paths of Development
Larissa Zakharova: Translated by Daniel Field
III. The Year of Jubilee
Daniel Field
IV. Interest-Group Politics in the Era of the Great Reforms
Alfred J. Rieber
V. The Meaning of the Great Reforms in Russian Economic History
Peter Gatrell
VI. A Neglected Great Reform: The Abolition of Tax Farming in Russia
David Christian
VII. The Russian Navy and the Problem of Technological Transfer: Technological Backwardness and Military-Industrial Development, 1853-1876
Jacob W. Kipp
VIII. Miliutin and the Balkan War
Military Reform vs. Military Performance
John S. Bushnell
IX. Accountable Only to God and the Senate: Peace Mediators and the Great Reforms
Natalia F. Ust'iantseva: Translated by Ben Eklof
X. Municipal Self-Government after the 1870 Reform
Valeriia A. Nardova: Translated by Lori A. Citti
XI. Crowning the Edifice: The Zemstvo, Local Self-Government, and the Constitutional Movement, 1864-1881
Fedor A. Petrow
XII. Jurors and Jury Trials in Imperial Russia, 1866-1885
Alexander K. Afanas'ev: Translated by Willard Sunderland
XIII. Popular Legal Cultures: The St. Petersburg Mirovoi Sud
Joan Neuberger
XIV. The University Statute of 1863: A Reconsidertion
Samuel D. Kassow
XV. The Rise of Voluntary Associations during the Great Reforms: The Case of Charity
Adele Lindenmeyr
Bibliography: Abbott Gleason
Contributors
Index
