Michael Speransky: Statesman of Imperial Russia 1772-1839

ISBN-13: 9789401185479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1957 / 387 str.

Marc Raeff

Opis

The impression created by travelers, by historians and journalists, as well as by Russia's own discontented intelligentsia was that nothing really ever changed in Russia, that the autocracy was the same in 1905 as it had been at the death of Peter the Great in 1725.

Spis treści

I. The Beginnings.- II. The “Constitutionalism” of Emperor Alexander I.- III. Administrative Activities 1802–1812.- IV. Reform of Russia’s Finances and Central Administration.- V. Plans of Reform.- VI. Disgrace and Exile.- VII. Philosophical Views and Political Theory.- VIII. Governing Russia’s Provinces.- IX. Projects for Reforming the Provincial Administration.- X. An Unpleasant Interlude — Speransky and the Decembrists.- XL Codifying Russian Law.- XII. Last Years — Conclusion.- Indices.