Readings in Russian Civilization Volume II

Imperial Russia, 1700-1917

Thomas Riha

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780226718446
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

"This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be sorely missed, and that the new selections will turn out to be useful and illuminating. The aim, throughout, has been to cover areas of knowledge and periods which had been neglected in the first edition, and to include topics which are important in the study of the Russian past and present."The bibliographical headnotes have been enlarged, with the result that there are now approximately twice as many entries as in the old edition. New citations include not only works which have appeared since 1963, but also older books and articles which have come to the editor's attention."—From the Editor's Preface"... a judicious combination of seminal works and more recent commentaries that achieves the editor's purpose of stimulating curiosity and developing a point of view."—C. Bickford O'Brien, The Russian Review "These three volumes cover quite well the main periods of Russian civilization. The choice of the articles and other material is made by a competent and unbiased scholar."—Ivan A. Lopatin, Professor of Asian and Slavic Studies, University of Southern California

INDEX VOLUME II

Academy of Medicine and Surgery, 251

Academy of Sciences, 243–244, 246–249, 481

Afghanistan, 470

Africa, 491, 495, 406, 497, 499

Agriculture, 254, 266–269, 290, 345–346, 360, 420, 422, 423, 428, 457, 473, 480, 483, 488, 492–493

Aksakov, Ivan, 315, 327, 378

Aksakov, Konstantin, 327, 378

Alaska, 498

Albania, 469

Alexander I, 265, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 290, 297, 298, 299, 302, 306, 404, 432, 434, 485, 496; ministries of, 282–283, 291, 292, 496

Alexander II, 368–369, 379, 498

Alexander III, 369, 383, 390, 418, 427, 433, 466, 474

Alexei, Tsar, 296

Algeciras, 469

All-Russian Moslem Movement, 439, 444

Anatolia, 438, 442

“Anglo-German war,” 465, 466

Anna Ivanovna, 493

Apraxin, F. M., 235, 236, 237

Aprismo, 495

Armenia, Armenians, 431, 433, 440, 441, 442–443, 444, 472

Army, 388, 452, 470, 478, 489, 493; conscription in, 263, 273, 276–277, 288; nobility in, 293–294

Art, 387, 388

Asia, 470, 479, 463, 497, 500; culture of, 310, 312, 313; and Russia, 310, 480; modernization in, 496–497

Assignats (monetary unit), 359

Astrakhan, 234

Austria-Hungary, 467, 468–469, 473

Autocracy, 253, 281, 292, 293, 319, 378, 380, 382, 391, 394, 397, 403, 404, 405, 431, 433, 434, 436, 480, 481, 491, 492, 493, 494, 498; see also Monarchy; Tsar

Azerbaijan, Azerbaijanis, 438, 440, 441, 444; see also Moslems; Tatars

Bakunin, Mikhail, 327, 329, 330

Balkan league, 469

Balkans, 467, 468, 469, 493

Baltic provinces, 473, 483

Bank Act, 286

Barannikov, Alexander Ivanovich (Kurshunikov), 371

Baranov, Count, 372

Barshchina (labor service), 336, 365

Bashkirs, 438

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Acknowledgments
• 18 Russia Under Peter the Great
• 19 Lomonosov
• 20 Catherine the Great's “Instructions”
• 21 The Legislative Commission of 1767
• 22 A Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow
• 23 Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
• 24 The Decembrists
• 25 Apology of a Madman
• 26 Letter to Gogol
• 27 Young Moscow
• 28 What is Oblomovism?
• 29 Going to the People
• 30 From a Village Diary
• 31 Killing an Emperor
• 32 A Slavophile Statement
• 33 The Slav Role in World Civilization
• 34 The Falsehood of Democracy
• 35 Russian Liberals
• 36 Industrial Workers in the 1880's
• 37 An Economic Policy for the Empire
• 38 The National Problem in Russia
• 39 The Speech from the Throne
• 40 The Government's Declaration to the First Duma
• 41 We Need a Great Russia
• 42 Memorandum to Nicholas II
• 43 The Nature of Imperial Russian Society
• Chronology
• Correlation Tables
• Index