02984oam 2200589I 450 991046039140332120200520144314.01-315-70540-01-317-47374-410.4324/9781315705408 (CKB)3710000000401863(EBL)2010600(SSID)ssj0001461924(PQKBManifestationID)12556098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001461924(PQKBWorkID)11478546(PQKB)10164206(MiAaPQ)EBC2010600(Au-PeEL)EBL2010600(CaPaEBR)ebr11042486(CaONFJC)MIL767931(OCoLC)923712441(OCoLC)909897973(EXLCZ)99371000000040186320180706e20152004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCount Sergei Witte and the twilight of Imperial Russia a biography /Sidney HarcaveAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2015.1 online resource (334 p.)First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.0-7656-1422-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.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.StatesmenRussiaBiographyRussiaPolitics and government1894-1917RussiaEconomic policy1861-1917Electronic books.Statesmen947.08/3/092BHarcave Sidney1916-2008.,138831FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910460391403321Count Sergei Witte and the twilight of Imperial Russia2219179UNINA