At the Margins of Orthodoxy

by Paul W. Werth

In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various faiths? Did the nature of tsarist rule change over time, and did it vary from region to region? Paul W. Werth considers these large questions in his survey of imperial Russian rule in the vast Volga-Kama...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438403
• ISBN13: 9780801438400
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher