A Reluctant Parliament: Stolypin, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1911

by Alexandra Shecket Korros

Noted historian Alexandra S. Korros deftly explores the organization and operation of the Russian Empire's State Council in the wake of the 1905 revolution. Korros dismisses the traditional interpretation that the State Council was a monolithic opponent to reform and focuses on the complex political maneuvering between those of its members anxious to make the legislative chambers work, and those determined to turn Russia away from the path of constitutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742515370
• ISBN13: 9780742515376
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"