Sidney Harcave

Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia

A Biography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sergei Witte served as finance minister and later prime minister of Russia during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II, and was in large part responsible for the development policies which saw Russia transformed from a peasant economy into an industrial nation. This is the first biography of Witte in English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780765614223
• ISBN-10: 0765614227
• Artikelnr.: 21249263

Autorenporträt

Sidney Harcave is professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he taught for thirty years. Among his many books issued in numerous editions are: Russia: A History; First Blood: The Russian Revolution of 1905; Years of the Golden Cockerel: The Last Romanov Tsars, 1814-1917; and The Memoirs of Count Witte.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Formative Years, 1849-1865
Chapter 2 The Odessa Years, 1865-1879
Chapter 3 St. Petersburg and Kiev, 1879-1891
Chapter 4 Monsieur Vite, 1889-1892
Chapter 5 Minister of Finance, 1892-1894
Chapter 6 A New Reign, an Old Course, 1894-1896
Chapter 7 The Witte System in Operation, 1892-1899
Chapter 8 Questions of War and Peace, 1896-1899
Chapter 9 Decline and Fall, 1899-1903
Chapter 10 A Mere Spectator, 1903-1904
Chapter 11 Political Spring, July-December 1904
Chapter 12 In the Wake of Bloody Sunday, January-June 1905
Chapter 13 Peace with Honor?
Chapter 14 Return Home
Chapter 15 Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire
Chapter 16 Honeymoon? The First Ten Days
Chapter 17 Keeping the Promise of October 17
Chapter 18 Revolution and Counterrevolution
Chapter 19 "The Loan That Saved Russia"
Chapter 20 Implementing the October Manifesto
Chapter 21 The Last Lap
Chapter 22 Exile? Assassination? May 1906-June 1907
Chapter 23 The Stolypin Years, June 1907-September 1911
Chapter 24 Last Years, 1911-1915
aft Afterword