Russia

This 1912 work was the last updating of an influential and still relevant work on late Tsarist Russia.

Donald Mackenzie Wallace (Author)

9781108078542, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 August 2017

808 pages, 2 maps
22 x 14 x 4.8 cm, 1.03 kg

This significant history of late Tsarist Russia was first published in 1877; reissued here is the edition of 1912, the last to be revised and updated by its author, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841–1919). Having been orphaned at an early age, but with private means, Wallace spent most of his twenties studying law, philosophy and ethics at various European universities. He was invited to visit Russia in order to study the language and customs of the Ossetians, a nomadic tribe of south Russia, but stayed for six years, studying the Russians themselves and their vast country: the first edition of this influential and still relevant work was the result. Wallace became a foreign correspondent for The Times, and was associated with the newspaper for the rest of his working life, though he also advised the British government, and occasionally royalty, on foreign and diplomatic issues.

Preface
1. Travelling in Russia
2. In the northern forests
3. Voluntary exile
4. The village priest
5. A medical consultation
6. A peasant family of the old type
7. The peasantry of the north
8. The mir, or village community
9. How the commune has been preserved
10. Finnish and Tartar villages
11. Lord Novgorod the Great
12. The towns and the mercantile classes
13. The pastoral tribes of the steppes
14. The Mongol or Tartar domination
15. The Cossacks
16. Foreign colonists on the steppe
17. Among the heretics
18. The dissenters
19. Church and state
20. The noblesse
21. Landed proprietors of the old school
22. Proprietors of the modern school
23. Social classes
24. The imperial administration and the officials
25. Moscow and the Slavophils
26. St Petersburg and European influence
27. The Crimean War and its consequences
28. The serfs
29. The emancipation of the serfs
30. The landed proprietors since the emancipation
31. The emancipated peasantry
32. The zemstvo and local self-government
33. The reform of the law courts
34. Revolutionary nihilism and the reaction
35. Socialist propaganda, revolutionary agitation, and terrorism
36. Industrial progress and the proletariat
37. A new phase of the revolutionary movement
38. The Japanese war and its consequences
39. The imperial duma
40. Territorial expansion and foreign policy
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]