Bibliograph

Tales of imperial Russia, the life and times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915, Francis W. Wcislo

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Tales of imperial Russia, the life and times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915, Francis W. Wcislo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tales of imperial Russia

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

670482272

Responsibility statement

Francis W. Wcislo

Sub title

the life and times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915

Table Of Contents

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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