P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia

by Abraham Ascher

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive biography in any language of Russia's leading statesman in the period following the Revolution of 1905. Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911 (when he was assassinated), P. A. Stolypin aroused deep passions among his contemporaries as well as subsequent historians.

In the twilight of Nicholas II's reign he was virtually the only man who seemed to have a clear notion of how to reform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745471
• ISBN13: 9780804745475
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.7"