Tales of imperial Russia : the life and times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915 /
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| Author / Creator: | Wcislo, Francis William, 1951- |
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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Map if Russian Empire, 1912
- Introduction. The Storyteller and His Story
- 1. Transcaucasia: Boyhood and Family on an Imperial Frontier, 1849-1865
- 'On Ancestors [0 predkakh]': Men and Masculinity
- Frontier Women and Imperial Imagination
- Conclusion: A Grandmother's Tale
- 2. Imperial Identity: Coming of Age in New Russia, 1865-1881
- The University and 'Studenthood'
- Odessa and St Petersburg: The Railway Man in an Age of Empire
- Conclusion: A New Russian
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
