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Longman History of Russia

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of abbreviations; List of tables and maps; Preface; Dedication; Chapter one The Enigmatic Tsar, his Friends, and his Inheritance; Were Russia's rulers their own worst enemies?; The character of Alexander I; Alexander and Paul (1796-9); The coup of 1801; Foreign enemies and domestic minorities; Russian backwardness; The reforms of 1801-4; Conclusion; Chapter two Russia and the Napoleonic Wars; Introduction; The descent into war (1801-5); The War of the Third Coalition (1805-7); Alliance with France (1807-12).

Chapter nine In the Wake of EmancipationResponses to the legislation of 1861; Military and fiscal reform; The church; Higher education; Local government; Primary schools; Courts; The press; The weaknesses and strengths of the reforms of the 1860s; Chapter ten Russia and Europe; Russian foreign policy in the post-Crimean era; Courting France (1856-63); The consequences of the Polish rebellion (1863-70); Attempting to profit from the Franco-Prussian War (1870-5); Victory and defeat in the Balkans (1875-8); Chapter eleven Populism; Trials and terrorists; Populists and social change.

Defeating Napoleon (1812-14)The Congress of Vienna; Chapter three Constitutions, Congresses and Classes under Alexander I; The Napoleonic Wars and Russian constitutionalism; The Plans of Mikhail Speranskii; Speranskii's downfall; Alexander and the Kingdom of Poland; The abandonment of reform; Post-war diplomacy; The problem of demobilization; Serfs, bureaucrats and merchants; Chapter four The Decembrist Movement; The succession crisis of 1825; The roots of revolt: bureaucrats, writers, academics, masons, and soldiers; First attempts at organization; The schism of 1821.

Nicholas I and the Polish problemUkrainians and Jews; The Caucasus, central Asia, Siberia, Finns and Balts; The Turkish problem in the 1830s and 1840s; Russia and the European revolutions of 1848; The Crimean War and the death of the tsar; Chapter eight The Politics of Emancipation; The accession of Alexander II and the end of hostilities; Domestic unrest; Alexander's caution; The contradictory signals of 1855 and 1856; The decision of 1857 to grant the serfs their freedom; The decision of 1858 to free the serfs with land; Getting principles on to the statute book.

Pestel' and the Southern SocietyDecembrists in the north; The abortive rising; Conclusion; Chapter five The Administrative and Social Policy of Nicholas I; Nicholas I as conservative; Nicholas I as reformer; The governmental machine; The bureaucracy; Reforming the law; State peasants; Serfs; Conclusion; Chapter six The Emergence of the Russian Intelligentsia; Introduction; Discontented nobles; Commoners; Outlets for opinion; The political implications of literary expression; Slavophiles; Westernizers; Conclusion; Chapter seven The Russian Bear; War with the Ottoman Empire and Persia.

Russia > History > Alexander I, 1801-1825.

Russia > History > Alexander II, 1855-1881.

Russia > History > Nicholas I, 1825-1855.

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