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" -The HistorianThis volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the Great Reforms during the reign of Alexander II and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
The 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.
