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About the Author
A.I.U Polunov, Thomas C. Owen, L.G. Zakharova
Reviews
"Ideally suited for surveys as well as specialized courses on Russia's long nineteenth century, Polunov's new text deftly synthesizes decades of Russian and Western scholarship. It is the comprehensive yet concise and clearly written narrative that those who teach this period have been looking for. I intend to make the book required reading for my students." - Donald J. Raleigh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Polunov's interpretation of the last century of imperial rule marks a sharp break with Soviet-era histories of the late Russian Empire. Rather than view the events from the Napoleonic Wars to World War I as the prehistory of... 1917, he examines the decay of the two major institutions of the empire - serfdom and autocracy - from an essentially liberal and democratic standpoint.... His account helps to explain why the tsarist government successfully resisted fundamental change at crucial moments in the nineteenth century and why a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an alternative to the Bolshevik Revolution. The moral and political dramas described by Polunov have lost none of their relevance. The struggle between militarism and authoritarian rule on the one hand and humanitarianism and the rule of law on the other persists in the post-Soviet era as well." - From the foreword by Thomas C. Owen"
Book Information
ISBN 9780765606723
Author A. I. U. Polunov
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 420g