Terence Emmons

The Russian Landed Gentry and the Peasant Emancipation of 1861

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This books is concerned with the emancipation of the Russian serfs in 1861.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780521089197
• ISBN-10: 0521089190
• Artikelnr.: 25043353

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Landed Gentry, Serfdom and First Steps Towards Emancipation: 1.
Introduction: some social and institutional characteristics of the landed
gentry before 1861; 2. The gentry as serf-owners and first steps toward
emancipation; 3. The government's first steps and the gentry; Part II. The
Provincial Gentry Committees, 1858-9: 4. The Tver landed gentry prepare for
peasant emancipation; 5. The liberal program elsewhere in Russia; Part III.
The Gentry Versus the Bureaucracy, 1858-61: 6. The government and the
gentry, April 1858-November 1859; 7. The provincial gentry assembled and
the Second Convocation of gentry deputies in Petersburg (December
1859-April 1860); Part IV. The Gentry After Emancipation, 1861-5: 8.
Promulgation of emancipation and the Tver gentry in 1861-2; 9. The variety
of gentry views and the 'Constitutionalist Campaign' of 1861-2; 10.
Government response to gentry demands and the decline of the gentry
opposition movement.