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Record Nr.

UNISA996248217803316

Titolo

Readings in Russian civilization . Volume II Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 [[electronic resource] /] / edited, with introductory notes, by Thomas Riha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1969

ISBN

1-282-07016-9

9786612070167

0-226-71844-1

Edizione

[2d ed., rev.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RihaThomas

Disciplina

914.7/03

947.

Soggetti

History

HISTORY / General

Russia Social conditions

Russia History 1613-1917

Russia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents Volume II; 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



Sommario/riassunto

""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