On the path to reform -- "A time of external slavery and internal freedom" -- A colossus with feet of clay -- The end of serfdom -- The great reforms : sources and consequences -- Russia's economy and finances after the emancipation of the serfs -- The opposition movement in post-reform Russia : from "thaw" to regicide -- Russia and the world, 1856-1900 -- Under the banner of unshakable autocracy -- Nicholas II : a policy of contradictions -- Opposition and revolution -- On the eve of great changes
Summary
This covers the history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. It examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy; the major social groups and how they reacted to the Great Reforms
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index
