The Great Reforms

by W. Bruce Lincoln

Book Overview

The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast serf...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875805493
• ISBN13: 9780875805498
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher