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Author : D. C. B. Lieven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 0300044003
Author : D. C. B. Lieven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0300043716
Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0300049374
Who were the members of the Russian ruling elite during the reign of the last Tsar before the Revolution? How did high-level politics operate in Imperial Russia's last years? In this highly original book, Dominic Lieven probes deeply into the lives of the 215 men appointed by Nicholas II to the State Council, which contained all important members of the Russian governmental system of that era. Basing his research on previously untouched Soviet archival sources, Dominic Lieven describes the social, ethnic, educational, and career backgrounds of these men, and he explores how their mentalities were shaped, what their political views were, and how their attitudes and opinions were influenced by their differing backgrounds and careers. Lieven looks not only forward to the causes of the collapse of the old regime but, in his introductory chapter, backward as well, tracing the history of the Russian ruling elite from its earliest origins and making comparisons with the ruling elite of other societies. His conclusions about the resilience of the old aristocratic Russian families and the operation of their self-protective, career-advancing network are striking and original. Lieven's book serves many purposes. It tells us a great deal about the balance of power between the bureaucrats and their monarchs, it brings to life the members of the last ruling elite, and it reveals interesting information about the role and personality of the Emperor Nicholas II. By making regular comparisons with aristocratic elites elsewhere, it sets the Russian experience in a broader European context. And by looking at Russia's problems through the eyes of its ruling aristocracy, it enables us to understand a good deal that is otherwise incomprehensible about the coming of the Russian Revolution.
Author : D. C. B. Lieven
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300097263
Focusing on the Tsarist and Soviet empires of Russia, Lieven reveals the nature and meaning of all empires throughout history. He examines factors that mold the shape of the empires, including geography and culture, and compares the Russian empires with other imperial states, from ancient China and Rome to the present-day United States. Illustrations.
Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028489451
The author traces with compelling detail the evolution of the Russian state, where the Tsar claimed to own the land and its inhabitants as if they were his own personal property. Professor Pipes analyzes the political behavior of Russia's peasantry, nobility and bourgeoisie as well as its clergy, showing why none of them could limit the absolute power of the state. He discusses how the intelligentsia challenged the Tsars' power, leading to increased repression and Russia's development as a bureaucratic police state. This sweeping epic brings Russia's turbulent history to life and helps us better understand the roots of modern Russia.
Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034537681
Discusses the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1880s including the geography, development of government, and political behavior of major social groups.
Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107639417
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government's policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionary movement. The volume's seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, and on Russia's evolution as a great power, make it the most detailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period.
Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674004736
Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.
Author : Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199280513
Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions.
Author : Jan Hennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107050594
This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.
Author : Karl W. Ryavec
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0847695034
This unique study provides an original, nitty-gritty view of the true nature and operation of Russia's state bureaucracy from the imperial period to the present, including the Putin presidency. The only book-length exploration of the problems and deficiencies of Russian bureaucracy since tsarist times, this detailed work sheds important new light on Russian public administration, an often-overlooked but key barrier to Russian normalization and democratization.
Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674781198
Discusses the sixteenth century roots of the lack of a unified Russian identity, the division between the gentry and the peasantry, and the widening gap in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which led to revolution and continues to affect Russia today.
Author : Astrid S. Tuminez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0847688844
This thoughtful book describes the range of nationalist ideas that have taken root in Russia since 1856. Drawing on a wide range of archival documents and unparalleled interview material from the post-Soviet period, Tuminez analyzes two cases_Russian panslavism in 1856-1878 and great power nationalism in 1905-1914_when aggressive nationalist ideas clearly influenced Russian foreign policy and contributed to decisions to go to war. Yet not all forms of nationalism have been malevolent, and the author assesses competing nationalist ideologies in the post-Soviet period to clarify the conditions under which a particularly belligerent nationalism could flourish and influence Russian international behavior.
Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300122691
Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia?
Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0674055519
One of the world's preeminent scholars of the Soviet Union with many personal contacts there, Geoffrey Hosking provides a unique perspective on the rapid changes the country is experiencing. Other books have focused on the political changes taking place under Gorbachev; Hosking's lively analysis illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that have created the need-and openness-for sweeping political and economic change.