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Author Wcislo, Francis William, 1951-

Title Reforming Rural Russia : State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (372 pages).
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Series Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Harriman Institute.
Contents Cover; Contents; Prologue; Bibliography.
Summary As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian society. His broader objective, however, is to use the issue of autocratic politics to probe the character and evolution of bureaucratic mentalit in this period. Wcislo links the social, psychological, ideological, and institutional nexus of the bureaucracy with its social.
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Subject Russia -- Politics and government -- 1855-1881.
Russia.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1855-1881
Subject Russia -- Politics and government -- 1881-1894.
Chronological Term 1881-1894
1855-1917
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wcislo, Francis William. Reforming Rural Russia : State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400861231 (electronic book)
1400861233 (electronic book)