Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881
Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881

Author: Ben Eklof

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1994-06-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780253208613

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The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander II represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reforms of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and other domains. This 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. -- From publisher's description.

Reform in Modern Russian History
Reform in Modern Russian History

Author: Theodore Taranovski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-01-27

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780521451772

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This volume provides a comparative study of the problems and prospects of reform in modern Russian history. Drawn from contributions to a May 1990 conference sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the book raises important methodological and historiographic questions regarding the content, scope, and significance of various reform efforts, ranging from the Great Reforms of tsar Alexander II to attempts to salvage the Soviet system undertaken by Khrushchev and Gorbachev. One of the key issues raised is whether various attempts to modernise the political and social system were a series of cyclical failures or demonstrate a pattern of progressive development.Reform in Modern Russian History favours the second mode of interpretation and provides an excellent background for all who want to understand the Gorbachev era and contemporary Russian politics.

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms
The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms

Author: Peter Reddaway

Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9781929223060

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Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.

The Great Reforms
The Great Reforms

Author: W. Bruce Lincoln

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9780875801551

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The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast serf armed forces into a citizen army in which men from all classes bore equal responsibility for military service. This invaluable study explains why the legislation assumed the shape that it did and estimates what the Great Reforms ultimately accomplished. The Great Reforms offered readers a vital starting point from which to evaluate the prospects for glasnost', perestroika, and reform in the Gorbachev era.

Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881
Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881

Author: David Saunders

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1317872576

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This eagerly awaited study of Russia under Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II -- the Russia of War and Peace and Anna Karenina -- brings the series near to completion. David Saunders examines Russia's failure to adapt to the era of reform and democracy ushered into the rest of Europe by the French Revolution. Why, despite so much effort, did it fail? This is a superb book, both as a portrait of an age and as a piece of sustained historical analysis.

Resisting the State
Resisting the State

Author: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1139455710

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Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.

Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

Author: Ben Eklof

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780714657059

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A collection of essays which examine the reform of the educational system in post Soviet Russia in historical and comparative perspective.

Uyghur Nation
Uyghur Nation

Author: David Brophy

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0674660374

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Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation.

Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires
Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires

Author: Adrian Brisku

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 147423853X

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Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal and reform manifested itself: forging new laws and institutions, opening up the economy to the outside world, and entering the European political community of imperial states. Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires tackles the dilemma faced by both empires, namely how to bring about meaningful change without undermining the legal, political and economic status quo. The book offers a unique comparison of Ottoman and Russian politics of reform and their connection to the wider European politico-economic space.