Introductions: 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
A comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century Russia's most important attempt at peaceful reforms.
BEN EKLOF is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University and author of Russian Peasant Schools. JOHN BUSHNELL is Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of Mutiny amid Repression. LARISSA ZAKHAROVA is Professor of History at Moscow State University. Her numerous publications on the history of late Imperial Russia include Samoderzhavie i otmena krepostnogo prava v Rossii, 1856–1861.
"[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
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