Tales of imperial Russia : the life and times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 /

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Author / Creator:Wcislo, Francis William, 1951-
Imprint:Oxford ; York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:x, 314 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8400836
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ISBN:9780199543564 (hardback)
0199543569 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.
Summary:History and biography meet in 'Tales of Imperial Russia', a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire told through the figure of Sergei Witte. His political career saw him construct the Trans-Siberian Railway, propel Russia towards war with Japan and confront revolutionary disorder with the State Duma, the first Russian parliament.

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505 0 |a Transcaucasia : boyhood and family on an imperial frontier, 1849-1865. "On ancestors (O predkakh) : men anc masculinity ; Frontier women and imperial imagination ; Conclusion : a grandmother's tale -- Imperial identity : coming of age in new Russia, 1865-1881. The university and "Studenthood" ; Odessa and St Petersburg : the railway man in age of empire ; Conclusion : a new Russia -- Kiev : dreaming in the Victorian 1880s. The reality that surrounds us : imperial economy and polity ; Public and private lives ; Imagining autocracy ; Conclusion : a tale of the counter-reforms -- A city of dreams : St Petersburg, the empire of the Tsars, and imperial horizons in the gilded age (1889-1903). Gospodin minister : Witte as imperial official ; The Witte system and the empire of gold ; Fathers and sons on the road to war -- From exile : memories of revolutionary Russia, 1903-1912. From summer 1903 to October 1905 : war, America, and revolution ; The nightmare of 1905 ; Conclusion : my six-month ministry -- Conclusion : from the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, 1915. 
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