The Russian Landed Gentry and the Peasant Emancipation of 1861

by Terence Emmons

Book Overview

This books is concerned with the emancipation of the Russian serfs in 1861, the most important event in Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725) and the Revolution of 1905. It is a social history of the emancipation. The attitudes of the landowning gentry toward emancipation: their part in its preparation and their conflict with the government over the terms of emancipation and related reforms, are the major subjects treated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521089190
• ISBN13: 9780521089197
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"