Francis W Wcislo

Tales of Imperial Russia

The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915

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Produktbeschreibung

A major new biography of Sergei Witte, the most significant statesman of late Tsarist Russia, based on his two memoirs and combining the life story of Witte himself with the story of Russia at the end of the Tsarist age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9780199543564
• ISBN-10: 0199543569
• Artikelnr.: 32305266

Autorenporträt

Frank W. Wcislo is a historian of modern Russia, Eurasia, and Europe. He is Dean of The Commons and Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. The Storyteller and His Story
* 1: Transcaucasia. Boyhood and Family on an Imperial Frontier,
1849-1865
* 2: Imperial Identity: Coming of Age in New Russia, 1865-1881
* 3: Kiev: Dreaming in the Victorian 1880s
* 4: A City of Dreams: St. Petersburg, the Empire of the Tsars, and
Imperial Horizons in the Gilded Age (1888-1903)
* 5: From Exile: Memories of Revolutionary Russia, 1904-1912
* Conclusion. From the Alexander Nevsky Lavra,1915
* Bibliography
* Index