Count Sergei Witte and the twilight of Imperial Russia : a biography / / Sidney Harcave

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460391403321
• Autore: Harcave Sidney <1916-2008., >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-315-70540-0; 1-317-47374-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.08/3/092; B
• Soggetti: Statesmen - Russia; Electronic books.; Russia Politics and government 1894-1917; Russia Economic policy 1861-1917
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The formative years, 1849-1865 -- 2. The Odessa years, 1865-1879 -- 3. St. Petersburg and Kiev, 1879-1891 -- 4. Monsieur Vite, 1889-1892 -- 5. Minister of finance, 1892-1894 -- 6. A new reign, an old course, 1894-1896 -- 7. The Witte system in operation, 1892-1899 -- 8. Questions of war and peace, 1896-1899 -- 9. Decline and fall, 1899-1903 -- 10. A mere spectator, 1903-1904 -- 11. Political Spring, July-December 1904 -- 12. In the wake of Bloody Sunday, January-June 1905 -- 13. Peach with honor? -- 14. Return home -- 15. Out of the frying pan, into the fire -- 16. Honeymoon? The first ten days -- 17. Keeping the promise of October 17 -- 18. Revolution and counterrevolution -- 19. "The loan that save Russia" -- 20. Implementing the October manifesto -- 21. The last lap -- 22. Exile? Assassination? May 1906-June 1907 -- 23. The Stolypin years, June 1907-September 1911 -- 24. Last years, 1911-1915.
• Sommario/riassunto: Sergei Witte served as finance minister and later prime minister of Russia during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II, and was in large part responsible for the development policies which saw Russia transformed from a peasant economy into an industrial nation. This is ; the first biography of Witte in English.