The Zemstvo, Civil Society, and Liberalism in Late Imperial Russia
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Köp båda 2 för 1647 krThis book presents articles that provide a detailed account on the role of Gorbachev in Soviet's future, political reform, educational reform, economy, military, policy toward the United States and Western Europe, and relations with the devel...
The ultimate failure of liberalism in Russia, the authors write in conclusion, showed that the schism between Russias unacculturated peasant masses and educated society had not yet been overcome (p. 233). Pessimists long have agreed. What is new in this fine work of scholarship is the suggestion that it was the liberal belief in civil society that helped accelerate its demise. * The Russian Review * Prince Lvov has long deserved more attention than he has gotten from historians. Thomas Earl Porter and Lawrence W. Lerner not only demonstrate his importance to Russian politics but also use his career to trace the tortured path of liberalism in the last years of Romanov rule. Their treatment of the moderate liberals who coalesced in the Progressist faction after 1905 is equally interesting. -- Joshua Sanborn, Lafayette College Thomas Earl Porter is the leading western historian of zemstvo liberalism and it is very useful to have his major writings brought together in this volume. They have been modified in order to create a continuous and partially updated narrative of the topic from 1861 to 1917. This has been achieved in part through incorporation of work in the same area by Lawrence W. Lerner. The main theme of the book is the link between 'small deeds' zemstvo (i.e. local government) activity and the extent of an independent civil society in Russia, for which zemstvo activists are seen as a barometer. The political activities of Russia's first post-tsarist prime minister, Prince George E. L'vov, also acts as unifying thread in what many scholars will find is a useful and insightful account of the topic. -- Christopher Read, University of Warwick Thomas Earl Porter has written an important study that deepens our understanding of the politics of Russian liberalism and of local self-government as exemplified in the career of zemstvo activist George E. L'vov. -- Joseph Bradley, University of Tulsa
Thomas Earl Porter is professor of history at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Lawrence W. Lerner received a PhD from the University of Washington and served for nearly two decades as assistant director of the Russian and East European Studies Center of the institutions Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Chapter 1: The Zemstvo and Russian Liberalism Chapter 2: The Small, victorious war and the First Russian Revolution Chapter 3: Russias Forgotten Decade: The Zemstvo, Politics, and the Emergence of Civil Society Chapter 4: Russias Liberal Experiment Chapter 5: Russian Liberalism in Crisis Chapter 6: The Zemstvo and Liberalism in Russias Great War Chapter 7: The Failure of Russian Liberalism