LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv ABBREVIATIONS xvii INTRODUCTION 3 PART ONE: ALEXANDER II AND THE SCENARIO OF LOVE 17 CHAPTER ONE The Emergence of the Scenario 19 CHAPTER TWO The Tsar-Emancipator 58 CHAPTER THREE The Loss of Conviction 92 CHAPTER FOUR The Crisis of Autocracy 129 PART TWO: ALEXANDER III AND THE INCEPTION OF A NATIONAL MYTH 159 CHAPTER FIVE The Fashioning of a Russian Tsar 161 CHAPTER SIX Accession and Coronation 196 CHAPTER SEVEN The Resurrection of Muscovy 235 CHAPTER EIGHT Petersburg and Moscow; The Death of a Russian Tsar 271 PART THREE: NICHOLAS II AND THE SEARCH FOR A NATIONAL PERSONA 307 CHAPTER NINE Childhood and Marriage 309 CHAPTER TEN Accession and Coronation 340 CHAPTER ELEVEN Demonstrations of Godliness 365 CHAPTER TWELVE The 1905 Revolution and the Jubilee Celebrations 392 CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Tercentenary Celebrations of 1913 439 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Publicizing the Tsar 481 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Epilogue: The Tsar, the Duma, and the Army 503 CONCLUSION 514 BIBLIOGRAPHY 529 INDEX 553
Together with the first volume, this second volume of Scenarios of Power will likely long remain the single best interpretive study of the evolution of modern monarchical ideology in Russia. It is also a superb example of the cultural analysis of monarchical politics, and therefore will interest readers outside of the Russia field. Attentive to the symbolic sources of political action, Wortman illuminates the mythic images and narratives--and the changes in these--that monarchs and elite advocates of the monarchy articulated from the middle of the nineteenth century to the final years of the Romanov monarchy. -- Mark D. Steinberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Richard S. Wortman is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is also the author of The Crisis of Russian Populism and The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness.
A brief review can hardly do justice to the wealth of information and sophistication of analysis here; if the outline of Wortman's story is familiar, his telling of it is refreshingly new... Eschewing the kind of treacly romanticism that tends to transform [the tsars] with their many egregious faults into tragic heroes, Wortman enriches our understanding of why they made certain personal choices so ill-suited for the nation they undeniably loved. -- Louise McReynolds Slavic Review The formidable variety of evidence Wortman has amassed in this volume for his novel conclusions about the nature of Russian autocracy and downfall of the Romanovs puts Scenarios of Power at the top of the reading list not just for the serious students of Imperial Russia but for all scholars interested in the power of cultural symbols to shape history. -- Priscilla Roosevelt Russian Review This is a masterly book. It provides a penetrating analysis of the political culture of late Imperial Russia. Wortman's sophisticated and stimulating volume should provide a starting point for many more studies of the symbols and ritual of the Tsarist state. -- Peter Waldron Europe-Asia Studies A major contribution to the history of Russia, one from which every serious student of that country's tragic destiny will learn. -- Abbott Gleason Journal of Modern History
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